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> At Microsoft, we have an inner source approach – the use of open source software development best practices and an open source-like culture MS has an "open s

• tmotwu 6y ago
  Not untrue. Internal orgs adopt a monorepo structure - the source for the majority of the infra is readable from almost any developer within the company.
  • DaiPlusPlus 6y ago
    I figured that’s where Raymond Chen gets the bulk of his material from: looking at the perforce/sd diffs from 1997.
• deadso 6y ago
  They specifically said it's _not_ open source. Hence the open source-like. To distinguish, they even have a different name for it - inner source.
  • webmobdev 6y ago
    > To distinguish, they even have a different name for it - inner source. Yeah, I recognize MBA speak when I see it. That's why I chuckled. They were hacked and somebody saw their code. Now some guy in upper management has to spew some bullshit to protect the company's "image".
    • elygre 6y ago
      The term "inner source" was not coined by Microsoft. The wikipedia page [1] shows the history of the term. 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inner_source https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inner_source
    • bpye 6y ago
      Work at MS, that term has been used for a long time internally, certainly longer than I have worked here. It really is very useful to be able to go find the code for a product when you want to understand how something works.
    • deleted 6y ago
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• temac 6y ago
  If somebody needed an example of open source washing...