Right, so. Many companies do not sell open source software - they sell services around it or other software. I'm sure you're well familiar with this though. You're making the arg that MS' time/money support doesn't count bc you don't see OSS as part of their core business, right?https://twitter.com/k3170Makan/status/1008371524951158790 …
It's not nothing: it's real time and cash for OSS. The tweet that started this was an employee literally saying she works on OSS on MS time with their blessing. Time also = Typescript, all of VSCode IDE... They've given money too, e.g. Linux Foundation Plat member, many events...
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So we should be thankful to our overlords is what you are saying?
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I think you're taking this to an extreme. While that is sometimes helpful, I can't see the benefit of saying "Microsoft do not support OSS unless they change everything and OSS *all* their major software". They can support without going that far, many smaller orgs do.
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The real time cash is in how much closed source software they are selling while being able to support the Linux foundation. It's like shut up money basically.
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Does it only "count" when a company is able to survive by solely making OSS? You seem smart enough to know what'd happen if they really opened everything & cancelled licences tmrw without a biz change process. Which is apparently ongoing. (Their shareholders would destroy them.)
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