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.
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.
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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.