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It's not a popular thing to say, but I think it's time to cut MS some slack. This announcement isn't actually all that surprising, given previous ones in the la
by jroseattle 15y ago
It's not a popular thing to say, but I think it's time to cut MS some slack. This announcement isn't actually all that surprising, given previous ones in the last few years.
Remember, this is a company whose CEO called Linux cancer. Think about the internal change that has to come about at MS in order for things like this to see the light of day.
What this announcement amounts to is anyone's guess, and it may go nowhere, but they're trying to participate in a meaningful way. They should be given some credit for taking those steps.
- drhowarddrfine 15y agoJust hold onto your wallet.
- bad_user 15y agoIf you ever worked in a big company, you should realize that this is pure and absolutely meaningless marketing. Not only that, but this announcement is by itself absolutely content-free. If they announced that they'll port .NET to Linux, or open-source it completely, now that would have been an announcement worth sharing, because code talks, bullshit walks and unfortunately for them they have a long history of enforcing their monopoly, breaking standards and fighting against open-source and the open web and so they can't be forgiven that easily, not as long as Ballmer is still their CEO. To their credit, they did release some cool stuff as open-source, like the F# compiler, or ASP.NET MVC and I hope this trend continues. However, marketing-fluff like this is meaningless.