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They are supporting open source, no? Could depend on your definition of course, but still.. Anyway: the tricky point here is that the division/department/whatev

by stinos 5y ago

They are supporting open source, no? Could depend on your definition of course, but still.. Anyway: the tricky point here is that the division/department/whatever which deals with that is not the same one as the management (or whatever group) pushing for these advertisements. To the point that treating Microsoft as one big untrustable entity and putting a dollar sign in its name becomes a bit weird and overly generalistic. I mean, I don't 'trust' any company they way I'd trust true friends, but dismissing the whole of it seems far fetched. E.g. I use their compiler. Do I have to worry about the compiler betraying trust somehow because some completely unrelated team in a large company pulls of stupid advertising? It's possible of course the complete top layer of management is instructing every single piece below it to do evil, like the compiler team putting backdoors in, but I don't think there are signs of such things going on.

squarefoot 5y ago
>They are supporting open source, no? Yes, definitely they are. But with strings attached, in the form of WSL. I'm patiently waiting for the day when they will announce that some big software/service from them (Office? GUI? Outlook?) will be finally integrated into Linux, but sadly it has to be WSL to work properly/faster/better/with support, that is, Windows, and not the real thing. The next big Linux distribution, the one that every business will take as the standard to make their products (and drivers!) compatible will carry the Microsoft brand. Microsoft attempted to kill Linux in the past, and failed spectacularly, so they're now aiming at controlling it by becoming a Linux vendor, possibly the biggest one. One doesn't become Platinum Member at the Linux Foundation just for the lulz, especially when it costs about $500000 per year. https://blog.desdelinux.net/en/microsoft-joins-the-linux-foundation/ https://blog.desdelinux.net/en/microsoft-joins-the-linux-fou...

by stinos 5y ago

squarefoot 5y ago

>They are supporting open source, no? Yes, definitely they are. But with strings attached, in the form of WSL. I'm patiently waiting for the day when they will announce that some big software/service from them (Office? GUI? Outlook?) will be finally integrated into Linux, but sadly it has to be WSL to work properly/faster/better/with support, that is, Windows, and not the real thing. The next big Linux distribution, the one that every business will take as the standard to make their products (and drivers!) compatible will carry the Microsoft brand. Microsoft attempted to kill Linux in the past, and failed spectacularly, so they're now aiming at controlling it by becoming a Linux vendor, possibly the biggest one. One doesn't become Platinum Member at the Linux Foundation just for the lulz, especially when it costs about $500000 per year. https://blog.desdelinux.net/en/microsoft-joins-the-linux-foundation/ https://blog.desdelinux.net/en/microsoft-joins-the-linux-fou...