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Dream on
by vezycash 8y ago
Dream on
- sys_64738 8y agoMaybe. But today's Microsoft is not that of your parents. 10 years ago, could you imagine them being the owners of the hub of the open source community?
- shmerl 8y agoThey had one since 2006 (Codeplex) but it didn't attract much interest as could be expected.
- Klathmon 8y agoIt's not without precedent! With .NET Core [0], and ChakraCore[1] (Edge's JS engine) both being open sourced. And them having thrown the entirety of MS-DOS [2] up under the MIT license, and making a bunch of new tools and stuff under open licenses (VSCode, TypeScript, msbuild, etc...). I honestly wouldn't be surprised if they started making a push to open up many parts of Windows. Already some devs on the Edge team have said publicly that they are working on open sourcing the whole rendering engine from Edge, and seeing that they are moving toward having Windows be more of a "platform" and less of "software you buy", it makes sense that it could eventually become an open source (or at least "open core") product. I don't think it will happen this year, but I do think that if MS keeps going in this direction, it's more likely than not to happen eventually. [0] https://github.com/dotnet/core https://github.com/dotnet/core [1] https://github.com/Microsoft/ChakraCore https://github.com/Microsoft/ChakraCore [2] https://github.com/Microsoft/MS-DOS https://github.com/Microsoft/MS-DOS