wander1236 comments on Open Source Rule

[–] wander1236@sh.itjust.works 17 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Microsoft has tons of open source stuff and tons of support programs for open source projects.

There are plenty of reasons to criticize Microsoft, but FOSS isn't one of them.

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[–] grue@lemmy.world 31 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child)

Yeah, now, and only because they lost and gave up. Some of us don't forgive past misdeeds so easily.

Besides, even to this day, most (if not all) of their "support" for open source is about getting it to play more nicely with Windows or trying to prevent people who insist on using open source from jumping ship to Linux, not supporting it for its own sake.

I'll believe Microsoft actually supports open source when they start porting things like Office or Flight Simulator to Linux, not before.

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[–] alsaaas@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 years ago

Yeah but I think that this highlights something quite well: Open Source is inherently corporate. It was created as a branch from the free/libre software movement, to extract it's open development model and make it corporate-friendly

"Open Source is just a corporate development model"

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