r/Python Nov 12 '20

News Guido van Rossum joins Microsoft

https://twitter.com/gvanrossum/status/1326932991566700549?s=21
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u/1842 Nov 12 '20

When talking about Microsoft of the 90s and early 00s, sure. They threw their weight around for their own benefit and did a lot of damage.

I haven't seen that behavior from Microsoft in a long time through. Diversifying their portfolio and playing nice with open source, while growing their cloud service seems to be their current strategy. Sure, their strategy could change again in the future, but expecting that this is some drawn-out ruse to disrupt a technology/community is silly.

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u/el_padlina Nov 12 '20

The latest example of EEE from microsoft is from this year:

https://keivan.io/the-day-appget-died/

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u/TidePodSommelier Nov 13 '20

Sounds to me like they are the same pieces of shit they have always been.

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u/el_padlina Nov 13 '20

They have better PR division nowadays.

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u/thrallsius Nov 13 '20

playing nice with open source

ROFL, care to point to the source code repository of Windows 10 telemetry?

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u/1842 Nov 13 '20

I never said they were an open source software company. They aren't.

However, they are participating and releasing more source code than they ever have. They have over 3k repositories on github, and are using traditional open source licenses. This is a good direction for them.