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Well how the tables have turned! Only about 3 yrs back I was having a conversation with a Microsoft engineer about them evaluating a closed source Hadoop clone
by sriram_sun 9y ago
Well how the tables have turned! Only about 3 yrs back I was having a conversation with a Microsoft engineer about them evaluating a closed source Hadoop clone because Microsoft policy prohibited them from using open source.
- tonmoy 9y agoUsing open source in their product is different from using it for development. I wonder which one you talking about with that employee
- sriram_sun 9y agoI'm pretty sure it was for a product (server side), not an internal dev tool. Back in 2000 one of my roommates was an intern with the VS team and he said a lot of the devs were using emacs.
- vtbassmatt 9y agoDifferent divisions have had different stances on open source code for a long time. Somewhere I still have the t-shirt from our first "Open Source Day" event back in 2008 (and it's not like that was the first time any MS employee had ever considered using open source). Things are a lot more standardized now, with a big push from both the top and the bottom to use open source wherever it makes sense. Why reinvent the wheel?
- sriram_sun 9y ago> Why reinvent the wheel? Look who's talking :)! Wasn't WiX released and developed as an Open Source project by MS?
- krylon 9y agoIIRC, it was the first open source project started by Microsoft / by a Microsoft employee. As a German, I find the name super cringeworthy, but it makes me giggle every now and then.