But this was rather an isolated event - at least from an external perspective This together with a few other discrete moves - like the Microsoft Open Source Lab and more and more opening of it tech stack Like the opening of QuickVB in 2014https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/vbteam/2014/05/02/quickvb-goes-open-source/ …
And you know, if you start give open source people resources to play by donating a significant amount to the linux foundation...https://bgr.com/2016/11/16/microsoft-linux-foundation-2016-donation/ …
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Don't cha want $500 000 I mean what $500 000 a year when your annual revenue is $90+ billion ? (not that they should have refused the money... let's just not get confused here about what's happening) https://www.microsoft.com/investor/reports/ar17/index.html …pic.twitter.com/33v9oiTULf
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2016 also saw : - SQL Server for Linux https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2016/03/07/announcing-sql-server-on-linux/ … - Announced the project to allow native Linux binaries to run as-is on Windows. https://www.infoworld.com/article/3049715/microsoft-windows/bash-on-windows-is-just-the-beginning-for-microsofts-linux-experiments.html …
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2017 - massive drop of open sourcing codehttps://fossbytes.com/microsoft-open-source-company-windows-office-free/ …
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And then the final: Microsoft acquire GitHub for 7.5 billion (remember CodePlex - well GitHub is what a successful version of CodePlex would have look like)https://news.microsoft.com/2018/06/04/microsoft-to-acquire-github-for-7-5-billion/ …
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Porting its own software on linuxhttps://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-working-on-porting-sysinternals-to-linux/ …
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Releasing its own modified kernelhttps://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-releases-its-first-linux-product/ …
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Now - all these moves are primary coming from the need for linux around Azurehttps://www.zdnet.com/article/linux-now-dominates-azure/ …
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At this point Microsoft in fully engaged in extending and modifiying Linux to fit its own needs So far so good. The point of this thread is not to be entirely cynical but rather to critically look at the nice and sweet PR campaign called
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Microsoft has demonstrated in the past its predatory nature (and they are not alone in this) There is no reason to believe what is now happening is any different than it was in 2001https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gM9znKKvTFM …
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To end this thread - here is a rather balanced article on the topichttps://siliconangle.com/2018/11/05/microsoft-ibm-flock-center-things-open-source/ …
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