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Microsoft has developed its own Linux. Repeat. Microsoft has developed its own Linux

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Tools for the Job

UNIX (of which Linux is really just a reverse engineered copy) was originally developed by AT&T (Bell Labs) as an OS to run telephone exchanges. So using it now to run network switch hardware is the logical choice.

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