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Microsoft Releases First Public Preview of RTVS Under MIT and GPLv2 Licenses (microsoft.com)

Posted by timothy on from the perfect-for-piracy dept.

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?"

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  1. Re:Embrace, Extend, Extinguish Meme by 93+Escort+Wagon · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I wish this meme would die.

    With time and good behavior on Microsoft's part, it will - eventually. But the "meme" exists because of very real misbehavior by Microsoft over the course of many years.

    It's analogous to a career criminal declaring he's gone straight - it's going to take time and repeated evidence before most people believe him.

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    #DeleteChrome
  2. Re:Embrace, Extend, Extinguish Meme by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Informative

    I wish this meme would die.

    That's not a meme. It's a real strategy that Microsoft was doing as early as 1996.

  3. Re:Waiting for...... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    This is Slashdot, so it wouldn't matter if Bill Gates and Microsoft gave all of their money to Linus, open sourced Windows and rewrote the entire kernel and set of API stacks on top of Linux, and then provided a mechanism to performantly convert every binary program and application (along with source code) ever written for Windows to run natively on Linux itself... and then renamed the company to Linuxsoft and had Paul Allen personally crash a rocket ship into the company's main campus after using its plume to draw the shape of a penguin whose cock is being sucked by Steve Ballmer...

    ... someone would STILL yell "Extend, Embrace, Extinguish!"