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Imagine there are two cities in a country, city A and city B. The president lives in city A and is very popular there, but not so much in city B. Person from c
by Grue3 8y ago
Imagine there are two cities in a country, city A and city B. The president lives in city A and is very popular there, but not so much in city B.
Person from city B: I hate the president. He never did anything good for our people.
Person from city A: On the contrary, this is the best president we had in forever. In fact he built 5 hospitals and 10 schools in our city alone! How can you possibly hate him?
Like, maybe Microsoft has contributed to some open source projects, but are these open source projects something everyone benefits from? I'm not even sure what their open source projects are.
Also, isn't it a big conflict of interest then? When the largest user of a platform also owns this platform, it kind of puts other projects at a huge disadvantage.
- btschaegg 8y agoI don't think the issue is where MS has contributed in terms of open source. For me, it doesn't matter: It's great that they do it, but their history of aquiring companies and driving their products into walls (like Skype and so many others) hasn't changed. So, when I see "MS acquires open source hosting platform", I'm thinking about that, not how many lines of code they've opensourced. Of course, if MS wanted to dampen that reaction, they could distribute the whole code for GitHub as a platform under an open source license - I just can't imagine them doing that.
- bausshf 8y ago> I'm not even sure what their open source projects are. .NET ?