> AWS, Microsoft, and Google are all racing to figure out how to turn their innovations into open source on-ramps to their proprietary services I'm sorry but t

> AWS, Microsoft, and Google are all racing to figure out how to turn their innovations into open source on-ramps to their proprietary services I'm sorry but these companies neither started the Open-Source movement nor do they define it today. Microsoft, in particular, was openly hostel towards the Open-Source community for at least a decade. Today's Microsoft has embraced Open-Source in some fantastic ways but still it is hard to forget comments like these: > "Linux is a cancer that attaches itself in an intellectual property sense to everything it touches," former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer > "A common trait of many of the companies that failed is that they gave away for free or at a loss the very thing they produced that was of greatest value--in the hope that somehow they'd make money selling something else," Microsoft Senior Vice President Craig Mundie.