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Ah, a voice of reason. I'm no MS lover; I've been off their products both at home and work for over 15+ years, at home since basically forever except for some
by davelnewton 8y ago
Ah, a voice of reason.
I'm no MS lover; I've been off their products both at home and work for over 15+ years, at home since basically forever except for some apps that only ran on Windows.
The MS of now is a far difference MS a decade ago, even five years ago. Things change--sometimes people don't.
- some_account 8y agoThey are wrong and this is absolutely not good for open source. Voice of reason? More like voice of ignorance.
- jjuel 8y agoHow is it bad for open source? Open source existed before GitHub and will certainly remain after.
- davelnewton 8y agoIMO calling a wide swath of people "ignorant" with zero content is just noise that does nothing to elevate the conversation. Most of us moved past name-calling in grade school.
- josteink 8y agoFirst off a disclaimer: Personally I'm not vehemently against this takeover, like others are. That said, I'm not super enthusiastic about it either. I've seen MS acquisitions go both good and bad before, so I'll simply wait and see how it turns out before passing judgement. Consider me neutral[1] at this point. > Ah, a voice of reason I'm not going to argue "reason" or not, but the Linux foundation is not impartial in these matters: Microsoft is a platinum Linux Foundation partner. They're obviously going to be biased. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tk1dd1D2Kts https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tk1dd1D2Kts
- davelnewton 8y agoA claim of bias requires more than "there's money involved", though. You're assuming bias. There may or may not be bias in this statement.
- syshum 8y agoSomeone might want to inform MS Legal dept that they work for a "far far far different" company than a decade ago, the MS legal team seems to have missed that memo