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That's exactly what this is, a way to sink their proprietary claws into Rust and try to influence the market the way they have done with most of their software
by alexfromapex 6y ago
That's exactly what this is, a way to sink their proprietary claws into Rust and try to influence the market the way they have done with most of their software for decades.
- jvanderbot 6y agoMicrosoft has reinvented themselves, but the old hatred won't die easy. I'm excited for Intel to do the same, and look forward to the lingering suspicion even then.
- alexfromapex 6y agoI disagree that they've reinvented themselves: https://www.computerworld.com/article/3568009/slack-files-eu-antitrust-complaint-against-microsoft-cites-anti-competitive-teams-bundling.html https://www.computerworld.com/article/3568009/slack-files-eu...
- dimitrios1 6y agoThe solution for this is rather simple, and until Windows does it, I will always be skeptical of their renaissance as some benevolent contributor to open source: open source windows.
- ChrisSD 6y agoSure! Presumably you're volunteering to track down the current rights holders for all code derived from third parties and will negotiate the relicensing of their contributions?
- dimitrios1 6y agoNope, I am volunteering the trillion dollar market cap corporation to do that.
- sgift 6y agoThat the monetized IRC clone is unhappy doesn't convince me that Microsoft has done something wrong. But we'll see what the EU commission decides.
- simias 6y agoMicrosoft are a gigantic corporation, they're not the good guys or the bad guys, they're collectively amoral and profit oriented. That will never change. Being suspicious of their actions and their intentions is a very reasonable stance.
- rockdoe 6y agoThe old hatred flares up every time Windows 10 asks me if I'm really really sure I don't want to default Edge as my browser, or "accidentally" changes it. Nothing has changed.
- heresie-dabord 6y ago> every time Windows asks me ... how much of my privacy I would like to have violated And every time Windows has changed settings without asking permission and without giving me a clear explanation about the settings and changes. I do not want my $OS to flout privacy.
- LAJdgday 6y agoNo they have not reinvented themselves. They are ruthlessly taking over OSS software projects by buying the type of developers who play politics and love to command others around. I take it that Rust is next after Python, whose development has stagnated and where the mailing lists are now censored.