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I work on the team doing Visual Studio's Tools for Apache Cordova. While I don't work on the open-source side of the fence, we have engineers focused on contrib

I work on the team doing Visual Studio's Tools for Apache Cordova. While I don't work on the open-source side of the fence, we have engineers focused on contributing to Cordova. Search the mailing list for "microsoft" (which picks up e-mail addresses) compared to "windows" to see where MS involvement picked up.[1] A lot of Microsoft's involvements in open source are via MS Open Tech. See their website for more information about their contributions.[2] While this doesn't show checkins, here are their blog posts about Cordova.[3] [1] http://callback.markmail.org/search/?q=list%3Aorg.apache.incubator.callback-dev+microsoft http://callback.markmail.org/search/?q=list%3Aorg.apache.inc... [2] https://msopentech.com/what-we-do/ https://msopentech.com/what-we-do/ [3] https://msopentech.com/blog/tag/cordova/ https://msopentech.com/blog/tag/cordova/

goalieca 12y ago
> I work on the team doing Visual Studio's Tools for Apache Cordova. Ten years ago my head would have imploded reading that. I remember distinctly balmer saying that linux was a cancer.
- Max_Mustermann 12y ago
  What were his arguments against Linux? I've never anyone actually speak ill of the concept of GNU/Linux, aside from "cookiness" and so.
  - caryhartline 12y ago
    I think the "cancer" part has to do with the GPL.
  - Qwertious 12y ago
    It's GPL'd, and any GPL'd code "infects" any codebase it's merged with (unlike MIT/Apache license).
    - tormeh 12y ago
      I don't really get why that's important. Just because the kernel is GPL'd doesn't mean the drivers, WM etc. have to be. That's kinda been my vision for how Linux may succeed on desktops/laptops. The GPL'd Linux kernel with almost everything else closed source. I realize I'm just describing Android.
  - Matumio 12y ago
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halloween_documents http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halloween_documents

goalieca 12y ago

> I work on the team doing Visual Studio's Tools for Apache Cordova. Ten years ago my head would have imploded reading that. I remember distinctly balmer saying that linux was a cancer.

Max_Mustermann 12y ago
What were his arguments against Linux? I've never anyone actually speak ill of the concept of GNU/Linux, aside from "cookiness" and so.
- caryhartline 12y ago
  I think the "cancer" part has to do with the GPL.
- Qwertious 12y ago
  It's GPL'd, and any GPL'd code "infects" any codebase it's merged with (unlike MIT/Apache license).
  - tormeh 12y ago
    I don't really get why that's important. Just because the kernel is GPL'd doesn't mean the drivers, WM etc. have to be. That's kinda been my vision for how Linux may succeed on desktops/laptops. The GPL'd Linux kernel with almost everything else closed source. I realize I'm just describing Android.
- Matumio 12y ago
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halloween_documents http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halloween_documents