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Has Microsoft just killed source code copyright? That would definitely be a win.
by swiley 5y ago
Has Microsoft just killed source code copyright? That would definitely be a win.
- echelon 5y agoBut who says the code has to be available to anyone but Microsoft? Remember that Amazon won off the back of open source. Now all the open source servers and databases are Amazon products.
- blibble 5y agoit would be a win for Microsoft that don't distribute their source code whereas for open source it's a disaster
- swiley 5y agoThere's nothing to stop the employees from distributing it at that point and even with copyright it gets distributed anyway, it's just not allowed to be used for anything serious.
- glogla 5y agoWhich seems very much align with what has Microsoft been trying to do for decades now.
- formerly_proven 5y agoInteresting idea considering Microsofts copyright-dependence has reached an all-time low point since they move as much as they can into their SaaS and PaaS offerings. Nothing left to copy, except for employees, but you don't need copyright to bash their heads in, legally speaking.
- nh2 5y agoIt would be quite impressive if this was a long-time planned "Embrace, extend, extinguish" move against Copyleft, with a casual acquisition of Github to make it work. Finally, it beat the "cancer that attaches itself in an intellectual property sense to everything it touches" after all those years, with its own tools! Now it's safe to touch.