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Probably the same reason they've opened sourced some other components lately: community feedback and updates. There are a bunch of bugs in Windows core that I
by kingcharles 4y ago
Probably the same reason they've opened sourced some other components lately: community feedback and updates.
There are a bunch of bugs in Windows core that I can't even get anyone to look at (and I'm an MVP). With these little bits they've opened sourced you can actively participate in helping the team fix the bugs, and add features as needed.
I know the team on Terminal had a whole muddle of problems to do with rendering recently that probably still needs some outside input. Even Microsoft's developers can't and don't know all the best ways to carry out tasks with their own APIs - there is just too much to learn.
- throwaway67743 4y agoWhy pay employees to fix bugs when some random can fix it for free? It makes perfect corporate business sense. (Not saying its a good thing, but it does make sense from a business POV)
- kingcharles 4y agoThat's definitely the cynical way of looking at it :) And sure, if they threw more bodies at the problem they would definitely catch some of them. But in my experience the community has found and fixed some weird bugs that probably would have been hard to bubble up through normal channels, or would have just been deemed too low priority under normal circumstances.