[HN Gopher] Microsoft is all-in on Open Source
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       Microsoft is all-in on Open Source
        
       Author : katiefritsch
       Score  : 5 points
       Date   : 2021-06-09 22:05 UTC (57 minutes ago)
        
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       | colesantiago wrote:
       | this is an obvious trap. avoid big tech companies bearing dubious
       | questionable gifts. there is always a catch.
        
       | Spivak wrote:
       | I will believe that MS is really committed to open source when
       | they open source something they don't actually need to in order
       | to sell it. An open source DirectX would be revolutionary for
       | cross-platform games. An open source Office would make everyone's
       | life easier developing integrations and cement OOXML as the
       | standard document format for another lifetime. An open source AD
       | would make Okta and Auth0 shiver. An open source Remote Desktop
       | would over night put every other competing product out of
       | business. An open source Hyper-V would completely change the
       | market and there would be a serious competitor to KVM.
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       | There's so much potential and wasted effort building around all
       | MS's tooling because of the lock-in and iron sales grip. And it
       | makes them bank so I don't expect it to change any time soon but
       | MS could have owned a whole generation of developers if they had
       | focused more on community and openness. Now there's two
       | completely separate worlds where you're either a MS dev or an
       | "everyone else" dev.
        
       | guilhas wrote:
       | Still remember 3 years ago vscode launch keynote where the
       | presenter was like "most open source software gets abandoned
       | because open-source developers don't care about their projects.
       | But this one is backed by Microsoft which makes it better and
       | trustworthy..." something around this lines. The contempt for
       | open-source was disgusting
        
       | yumraj wrote:
       | I was beginning to like the _new_ Microsoft, but the Bing
       | censoring of The Tank Man was a major reality check.
        
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