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I don't think Microsoft is a good example here. They're doing some pretty innovative stuff. Open sourcing much of the .NET stack, F#, and Windows 10 on the Rasp
by learc83 12y ago
I don't think Microsoft is a good example here. They're doing some pretty innovative stuff. Open sourcing much of the .NET stack, F#, and Windows 10 on the Raspberry Pi.
Even at their worst they never really stopped acquiring top talent, and their revenue hasn't stopped growing [1](it's also about 7 times what Facebook's is).
[1] http://www.extremetech.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/FY2002-20131.png http://www.extremetech.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/FY2002...
- oldmanjay 12y agoI'm not going to address whether or not Microsoft innovates, but open sourcing existing projects is possibly the loosest application of the term I've ever seen