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[-] Lmaydev@programming.dev 75 points 11 months ago

Microsoft loves open source nowadays.

People do a huge amount of their work for free.

They're also heavily invested in Linux for the cloud. So any work done there helps them.

[-] palordrolap@kbin.social 41 points 11 months ago

With Microsoft, any love shown could well be the Embrace part of the strategy that will lead to Extend and then Extinguish just as soon as they can figure those parts out. They might already have a plan.

The fact they've been able to turn things to their advantage so far does not mean they don't have such a plan. Or won't ever have one.

[-] Lmaydev@programming.dev 10 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Seems unlikely with how they work now. You also can't really extinguish foss.

.Net is cross platform and open source as well now.

Maybe if Linux becomes a competitor in the desktop market. But I don't see that happening any time soon.

[-] 0x4E4F@infosec.pub 0 points 11 months ago

Steve Balmer wasn't as keen on it...

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