I'm probably not the only one who suspects that what Microsoft is actually trying achieve with open sourcing things like this and .net core is to dump products that are more supportive of their revenue generating products rather than something that generates revenue on it's own onto the open source community. Oracle has after all been doing just that with Java and very successful with it.
Being someone who tries to think things trough pragmatically this does make quite a bit of sense for Microsoft, being an organization whose literal raison d'etre is to generate as much "value" (read: money) for their shareholders. It's also a good thing for open source as it steers more and more users and hence more resources towards open source software which simply cannot be controlled for the benefit of a particular company or platform like closed source software has been used for so many times in the not-too-distant past. Particularly by Microsoft.
As much as I'd like to hate Microsoft after all the anti-competitive embrace-extend-extinguish crap they've pulled in the 90s and early 2000s, it does very much look like the company has absolutely turned a new leaf now that Bill Gates, Paul Allen and Steve Ballmer are all long gone from company management. In the case of Allen he's so far that you're going to need an ouija board to consult him on how to run the company.
Being someone who tries to think things trough pragmatically this does make quite a bit of sense for Microsoft, being an organization whose literal raison d'etre is to generate as much "value" (read: money) for their shareholders. It's also a good thing for open source as it steers more and more users and hence more resources towards open source software which simply cannot be controlled for the benefit of a particular company or platform like closed source software has been used for so many times in the not-too-distant past. Particularly by Microsoft.
As much as I'd like to hate Microsoft after all the anti-competitive embrace-extend-extinguish crap they've pulled in the 90s and early 2000s, it does very much look like the company has absolutely turned a new leaf now that Bill Gates, Paul Allen and Steve Ballmer are all long gone from company management. In the case of Allen he's so far that you're going to need an ouija board to consult him on how to run the company.
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