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Microsoft Open Technologies Is Closing: Good Or Bad News For Open Source?

Posted by timothy on from the sea-change-or-see-no-change dept.

BrianFagioli writes When Microsoft Open Technologies was founded as a subsidiary of Microsoft — under Steve Ballmer's reign — many in the open source community hailed it as a major win, and it was. Today, however, the subsidiary is shutting down and being folded into Microsoft. While some will view this as a loss for open source, I disagree; Microsoft has evolved so much under Satya Nadella, that a separate subsidiary is simply no longer needed. Microsoft could easily be the world's biggest vendor of open source software, which is probably one reason some people don't like the term.

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  1. the obligatory, by Victor+Tramp · · Score: 3, Interesting

    ..and nothing of value was lost.

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  2. Re:Open Tech is closing? by zamboni1138 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    If I want to start the process of shutting down my computer, why wouldn't I go to a menu of things to start?