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Microsoft supporting BSD and MIT licensed open source makes sense; this has become commonplace under Satya's leadership. Aside from contributions to Linux to m
by mikece 6y ago
Microsoft supporting BSD and MIT licensed open source makes sense; this has become commonplace under Satya's leadership. Aside from contributions to Linux to make it work well in Azure or Git to make it work well for Microsoft's rather unique issues, their supporting GPL licensed products is yet another stark reminder that this isn't Ballmer's Microsoft -- and that Microsoft might actually be doing more for F/OSS software than the FAANGs of the world are at this point in time!
- pjmlp 6y agoI use lots of commercial software, so this is more a kind of philosophical question. Many that still bash Microsoft for EEE practices, are the first in the line killing GPL based stacks, pushing BSD and MIT licenses, which most of the time end up with selected updates in upstream and gold features only on the commercial products. Which kind of makes sense, supermarkets don't take PR, but it is a kind of two weight two measures.