Microsoft President Brad Smith Acknowledges They Were Previously Wrong On Open-Source

[ServerGarbage]

The hilarious part is that it is exactly the opposite, Closed Source is the communist cancer equivalent and Open Source is liberty, free market, and democracy.

I'm not going to discuss about politics in this community. I mean the most important thing is that we are on the same boat and we can do amazing things for the world we want. Lol I look like a poltician xDDDDD

[mdedetrich]

I think calling MS on their bluff is more than fair. Clearly they are making more money gathering and selling personal information (Microslurp) than they can on their shallow code quality and QA practices. Open source is looking more and more like a gambit as their recent acquisitions has been fairly transparent attempts to purchase quality developer communities largely owing to the fact they are incapable of building this themselves. I mean only GitHub has really accomplished this so not saying it's easy by any stretch. Nothing new there, they have a looong earned reputation of buying (borg'ing) others nice things.

You can probably claim the same for half of the big companies that contribute to Linux now, not just Microsoft (i.e. IBM/ Intel etc etc).

I never claimed that Microsoft is completely honest, of course they have their intentions which is as a company to make money. I just said that they are doing proper open source work, i.e. they are using standard open source licenses vetted by FSF and they are contributing to the Linux kernel in the same way anyone else is.

[AdamOne]

Yawn. You're arriving to this thread a bit late to do PR damage control aren't you?

Yes, I'm Satya Nadella, take your meds, lol

[mystiquewolf]

When they see something is going to thrive and/or thriving already...

[JustinTurdeau]

If you used your brain you would understand that this has nothing to do with trust. It has to do with publicly redacting their, or Balmers idiotic perspective in the 90's or whenever it was.
My critique was that MS literally says "we where wrong" and the computer nerds go "BWAAAAA!!!" At least see it for what it is; them admitting fault. Its nothing more or less then that. Its just an admission. No need to cry about it like the initial comments did, lol.

Yawn. You're arriving to this thread a bit late to do PR damage control aren't you?

[AdamOne]

Saying "GivE MiCrOsoFT aNoTheR cHaNCe GuYS -- THeY'vE ChaNGeD!!1" is actually the emotional response. Not trusting them after 2 decades of being led by absolute psychopaths is just the sane thing to do.

If you used your brain you would understand that this has nothing to do with trust. It has to do with publicly redacting their, or Balmers idiotic perspective in the 90's or whenever it was.
My critique was that MS literally says "we where wrong" and the computer nerds go "BWAAAAA!!!" At least see it for what it is; them admitting fault. Its nothing more or less then that. Its just an admission. No need to cry about it like the initial comments did, lol.

[insilications]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrac...and_extinguish

Never trust Microsoft.

Bill Gates and company wants the world to forget the past and how they were truly evil. It is a gigantic PR campaign.

[Citan]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrac...and_extinguish

Never trust Microsoft.

Nothing more to say.

[JustinTurdeau]

Believe it or not, Microsoft has changed (to what degree is debatable but its not trivial).

They've changed because they were forced to change. Their modus operandi hasn't changed one bit though. They still behave like '90s Microsoft whenever they get the chance. Everything they're doing now aligns perfectly with their previous attitude towards open source. It's just taken a decade or so for what they were predicting to actually happen.

"MiCrOsOft HaVe cHanGEd!!1" is literally what all their PR bots say. You have to be exceptionally dumb and/or uniformed to seriously believe that.

[insilications]

I would start believing Microsoft if they open sourced DirectX or Office