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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. convicted monopolist shuts down open source dept by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    News at 11.

  2. Stallman isn't "some people" by kuzb · · Score: 0, Troll

    He's one person. Frankly his views on software are outmoded, outdated, and far too rigid. He's not really the advocate I want any more because he's too much like a zealot.

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  3. Re:convicted monopolist shuts down open source dep by ColdWetDog · · Score: 0, Troll

    I'm missing .net on OSX and Linux.

    I'm not. .Net 1.0, .Net 1.2, .Net 1.4, .Net this, .Net that. Only one .Net version on the machine else nasty things happens.

    Microsoft is doing us a big favor leaving .Net to Windows.

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