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It's a quite interesting move actually. It indicates undoubtedly that Microsoft's business model also radically shifted away from selling software to selling ha
by dschuetz 8y ago
It's a quite interesting move actually. It indicates undoubtedly that Microsoft's business model also radically shifted away from selling software to selling hardware, subscription services and user data & analytics. It's not surprising now that Microsoft doesn't plan to make money off patents. So they make that huge OIN move to promote themselves as a big OSS supporter. That's quite a PR move, I'd say, a nice one though.
- S-E-P 8y agoWell while I mostly agree, I think it is important to note that it seems they are going for more of a SAAS approach. With Office and Azure, etc. They are more into the service industry now than they've ever been in the past. This move was them realizing that OSS is just a really good way to improve software for cheap. I doubt this will have lasting effects as I have yet to see them actually open source anything that I would consider special.
- mr_overalls 8y ago> I have yet to see them actually open source anything that I would consider special. It looks like they have open sourced a number of .NET components: CoreFX - Core foundational libraries, CoreCLR - runtime, Roslyn - compiler. As well as PowerShell, VS Code, Typescript, ASP.NET Core, MVC, Blazor, F#, Z3 Theorem Prover, etc. And that's from just the first few pages of their Open Source page: https://opensource.microsoft.com/ https://opensource.microsoft.com/
- simooooo 8y agoYou rekt that guy.