3 ms·

The Microsoft bashing is painful. I also wonder about outcomes like that, positive ones for Microsoft, GitHub the platform and GitHub the community. So much ne

• meddlepal 8y ago
  Agree a lot of negativity here. I don't really use any of the MS stack at all but I really want to see where they take things from here. The last few years have been very positive for Microsoft in my eyes from an outsider perspective. They're saying and doing the right things.
• thiagocsf 8y ago
  Painful... for you. On a serious note though, they deserve all the skepticism coming to them. I know they’ve been working in the last few years to revert their status as OSS public enemy #1 but remember, this is the company that said the GPL is cancer. Let them earn our trust. Keep the pressure, stay vigilant and be ready to change vendors.
  • sequoia 8y ago
    > remember, this is the company that said the GPL is cancer. You must greatly mistrust the StartupNews community as well, as "gpl is cancer" gets said here almost daily as well. d:o)
• fs111 8y ago
  The negativity comes from MS being MS. Many here have seen what they did in the past and what they do to this day. They have lobbied so hard in Munich that they are going to abandon Linux and go back to Windows. Great open source love all around! Also, as long as Windows, Office and Azure are closed, I cannot take all this "we love Open Source" stuff seriously. It is a big tech-marketing and recruiting vehicle, but nothing more. I am not saying, they should open those, I am saying that they are not an OS company and therefore should stop pretending.
  • oaiey 8y ago
    Their sales is doing what sales does: try to find a method to sell licenses. That has nothing to do with company philosophy but the percentage the sales person get. That is capitalism but nothing special to Microsoft. And Limux was a troubled child anyway (users, it organization and political leadership all along). I would have loved Limux to succeed, but unfortunately it did not.