Without Microsoft software, Ransomware would not hardly exist. I think the “downhill” has been a huge cliff for the past few years, but it’s getting worse. Nothing drives Azure business better.
> recompile it from source to pull in the latest openssl patches...
Why would they do this rather than rely on their upstream distributor to push an updated OpenSSL shared lib, and just apt-get/dnf install it?
... things have gone extremely backwards in this misguided modern rush to statically link everything so we can install it into a container.
"Just use Linux" is easy to say, but I wonder, would it really improve things?