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Microsoft Brings ChakraCore to Linux and OS X (cio.com)

Posted by EditorDavid on from the Microsoft-loves-Linux dept.

An anonymous reader quotes a columnist at CIO: A few days ago I wrote about Microsoft's revival of Skype for Linux. I called it "a big deal" -- less because of Skype itself and more because it signified Microsoft's recognition that Linux is a platform worth supporting... Now the company has done it again. At Node Summit this week, Microsoft announced the availability of ChakraCore for Linux. ChakraCore is the core part of the Chakra JavaScript engine that powers Microsoft Edge and Universal Windows Platform. With this move, Microsoft is putting one of its core technologies on a competing platform. This, more than any other Linux-friendly move the company has made, is a clear departure from the Microsoft of Gates and Ballmer that used its technologies to lock users into Windows...

While Ubuntu is the primary Linux distribution that Microsoft is using to showcase its ChakraCore technologies, the company said that the support should easily translate to other modern Linux distributions.
Microsoft's blog post says the experimental implementation runs not only on x64 Linux but also on OS X.

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  1. Microsoft not an OS company by phantomfive · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Microsoft sees themselves as less and less of an OS company, and more of a business services company, especially with the cloud. Windows is only a small portion of Microsoft revenue now, so they don't feel such a need to support it. It's possible that within the next decade, they may become to view it as a cost center, rather than a profit center.

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  2. ChakraCore is open source (MIT License) by Cyphase · · Score: 4, Interesting

    For those who don't know, ChakraCore is open source; the code is on GitHub, under the MIT license.

    https://github.com/Microsoft/ChakraCore

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    1. Re:ChakraCore is open source (MIT License) by Torp · · Score: 5, Informative

      Unfortunately I still remember their patent threats; I don't think it's safe to go anywhere near Microsoft owned source, no matter the licensing.

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    2. Re:ChakraCore is open source (MIT License) by DoofusOfDeath · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Unfortunately I still remember their patent threats; I don't think it's safe to go anywhere near Microsoft owned source, no matter the licensing.

      I agree, but I'm even more wary than that. Microsoft has a nearly perfect record of deceptiveness, sleaziness, and overall douchebaggery. Even if software patents didn't exist I would still suspect this is some kind of trap.

  3. Re:Still the old Microsoft by hairyfeet · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Yeah....its sadly a lot worse than under Ballmer, because you didn't see the Ballmernator packing their flagship with spyware that uses tactics taken straight from malware vendors like hardcoding IPs to get around HOSTS blocking.

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  4. So their products suck and their OS is useless for by RightwingNutjob · · Score: 4, Interesting

    real work. But for some reason, I should want to use their libraries on a system that actually is already useful for real work?

    Really must be something in the water. Gnome3, Wayland, systemd, Trump, and Microsoft on Linux?