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   by msftlvslicnsing 7y ago

   Relative to what, though? Departmental budgets or MSFT's gross revenue?
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   by msftlvslicnsing 7y ago

   >So they should start losing money? I was unclear; their revenue streams are still overwhelmingly comprised of proprietary tech. Darwin and AOSP are massive compared to the toys MSFT is throwing over the Linux wall. This idea that they n
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   by msftlvslicnsing 7y ago

   All that withstanding, nobody but developers buy Microsoft products because of VSCode.
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   by msftlvslicnsing 7y ago

   This also means the majority of OSes operating on a Microsoft proprietary cloud arch are based around a kernel whose governance is becoming increasingly influenced by - you guessed it - Microsoft.
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   by msftlvslicnsing 7y ago

   Companies are not people. They are not owed any second chances, olive branches, benefits of doubt. Nothing is stopping any of MSFT's OSS-Forward ideas from being brought up by capable people in other contexts. > Community-which was
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   by msftlvslicnsing 7y ago

   VSCode, exFat, and .Net core are not enormous. Their revenue streams are enormous and remain as close to their chest as ever.
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   by msftlvslicnsing 7y ago

   > Stop shitting on them. .... no? > We won the war. They’re mending their ways. "We" (?) are either there or not. The half-measures of mending continue at the pace of their choosing. > Even 10 years ago this would have so