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?"

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Re:Embrace, Extend, Extinguish Meme

[93 Escort Wagon]

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.