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Microsoft Releases First Public Preview of RTVS Under MIT and GPLv2 Licenses (microsoft.com)
shutdown -p now writes: Microsoft has released the first public preview of RTVS (R Tools for Visual Studio), an extension for Visual Studio that adds support for the R (GNU S) programming language. The product is open source, and while most of the code is under the MIT license, some components are GPLv2, in accordance with the R license.
That's not the first time this week (or this year) that Microsoft's open source efforts have been front-page news; with its new role in the Eclipse Foundation, too, the company's angling toward being one of the largest open source companies around, even if that's a small part of its business model.
Update: 03/09 19:03 GMT by T : Speaking of which: reader Salgak1 writes with his first submission, linking the Register's report that Microsoft has released a Debian-based Linux distro, called SONIC. "It is optimized for network switching, and apparently is a localized version of the
"Azure Cloud Switch" released into the Azure cloud hosting system. Question is, is it just another Microsoft "Embrace, Extend. Extinguish" strategy in action?"
Someone to explain how this is a bad thing and all that jazz. MS is in the title and summary, it's going to happen.
a small area https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kk24YoMqfI0
This is partially offtopic, but I'll repost this a few times because I think it needs to be heard. Over the past few months, I've posted plenty of trollish ultra-nationalist comments. I've alternated between claiming to be an American citizen and a citizen of an EU member nation. I've taken stock of the responses to the comments based on whether I claimed to be an American or a European. I've always posted the comments as an Anonymous Coward, so the reputation of the poster cannot be an issue.
Ultra-nationalist and xenophobic comments posted while claiming to be an American are predictably nearly always downmodded to -1 and met with derision. The responses are both predictable and reasonable. The sentiments expressed in the posts are destructive and deserve their negative moderation.
However, the response to comments with the same type of views posted while claiming to be a European are very different. I've blamed much of Europe's financial woes on Syrian refugees. I've claimed that any foreign relations of the US are attempts to force their laws on Europe, regardless of whether it's true or not. I've even suggested that Europe should go to war with the US over data privacy. I've frequently used offensive stereotypes such as "dumb, fat Americans." I've suggested that the EU should cut all of Russia off from the internet. While some of these comments have been modded down, the majority seem to be modded up, frequently to +4 and +5.
It seems that there's a very different reaction to ultra-nationalistic and xenophobic statements depending on whether the source claims to be European or American. There definitely seems to be a pro-European bias, looking the other way to offensive and destructive statements made when I claim to be European. It's truly alarming that such comments would be acceptable from any source, but that seems to be the case.
I miss the Bill Gates borg icon, where did it go!
I wish this meme would die.
Debian == systemd
the preceding comment is my own and in no way reflects the opinion of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
I'm not sure how I feel about this, but this is a wonderful validation for the popularity of the R language. When I started using R almost 10 years ago, few had heard its name outside of select academic disciplines. Now, in addition to it being quite ubiquitous in academia, its something that I list as a main skill on my resume.
A Microsoft Linux distro? There must be a market for ice skates developing in the underworld. Hell has officially frozen. Fun part would be to hack it and make it a sysV controlled confabulation using Patrick's kernel config and init.
Why would I use this instead of R-Studio? Is there anything this is adding?
Well Duh! if it isn't the first time this week then it obviously isn't the first time this year, The more logical way to say this would have been to swap the two time frames. Nice editing Tim.
I'm an American. I love this country and the freedoms that we used to have.
I know, everybody is waiting for the other shoe to drop, but there is none. The strategy here is obvious. Grow usage of Azure and displace Amazon. This means being pragmatic about platforms and gaining developer mindshare. There's billions of dollars to business to be had and Microsoft is ahead of the curve.
And it's a good story from a developer standpoint and it's getting better. Currently, where I'm at, they are still busy testing and doing proof of concepts, trying to set stuff up in Amazon, when they could have just gotten things running and started testing in Azure in minutes. They just refuse to believe that it can be that easy and they cling to virtual machine images and control they don't need (and costs them in resources).
I understand the EEE logic, and that was the MS MO for a long time. But Linux has established itself as an enterprise mainstay, and if I were in their shoes, I would make sure that their products could work on the operating systems that their customers use. They would like to extinguish, but they can't, so they need to join them.
"Who are you?" "No one of consequence." "I must know." "Get used to disappointment."
Know you know why systemd was force-fucked into Debian. Everyone with any fucking sense saw this angle coming, it's the extend that comes with the embrace.
The fuck has either to do with Microsoft?
And how exactly is modern system management a bad thing? Are neckbeards worried they may become irrelevant, now that most of the system management can be done in a few unit files rather than atrociously long, confusing and often hard to read shell scripts without any actual style guidelines but plenty of redundancy?
I embrace what you're saying - but to extend the thought - it's interesting that Java as a desktop application language has been resurrected, as long as you squint just right and allow yourself to recognize that mobile devices are the new desktop, and Android has the large majority share there. So, almost all of the apps on the most prevalent OS in the world, by many counts, are based on Java. I would call that a failed attempt to extinguish, even leaving aside Java's prevalence on the server side.
"Ahh! I see you're in that indeterminate Schrodinger state where - oh, uh