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It's mostly templates, SDKs, etc. MS is open-sourcing the pieces of cheese that lead to their proprietary cloud-shaped trap. I don't think they've open-sourced
by pnako 6y ago
It's mostly templates, SDKs, etc.
MS is open-sourcing the pieces of cheese that lead to their proprietary cloud-shaped trap. I don't think they've open-sourced anything related to Azure itself (i.e. if I wanted to run my own Azure-like cloud).
I'm not saying it's a bad or even unethical strategy. I'm just saying that MS is not, remotely, an open-source company.
- colinmcdonald22 6y agohttps://github.com/Microsoft/service-fabric https://github.com/Microsoft/service-fabric
- nine_k 6y agoHow about VSCode and .Net Core?
- mcny 6y agoI work with asp.net web api and angular (typescript) but I think the point stands. > Which of their former good selling products has microsoft open sourced? Neither Visual Studio Code nor .NET core fits this criteria. Visual Studio IDE is not free and open source and neither is the older version of .NET framework. Launch a .NET core application inside visual studio code. Even that comes with a warning saying you can only use the debugger within certain limited situations.
- ToFab123 6y agoService Fabric is open source. SF is basically what powers Azure and tons of other MS cloud based software like sql azure https://github.com/Azure/service-fabric https://github.com/Azure/service-fabric
- Conan_Kudo 6y agoI would actually go so far as to say it is an unethical strategy. It's just a popular one. And a very successful one.