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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.
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.
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"
"Embrace, Extend, Extinquish"
If they're doing that, they're playing a very long game.
Are they, though? How many game studios did they just buy and immediately shutter? Have they ever NOT been involved in anti-competitive lawsuits?
We're talking about open source software, not games.
Yea they have played nice with FOSS, albeit the game studio craziness is a bunch of bs
How about the Office format shenanigans?
Do people not know or forget that M$ is only supporting things that don't threaten their bottom line, or things they themselves (ab)use?