Another example of how far Microsoft's focus has changed. Rather than focusing on products, they're focused on selling solutions.
Aren't all products essentially solutions?
Microsoft Becomes Linux Foundation Platinum Member
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#52Everytime I see a big corporation donate money to a software project, I like to imagine what the software project would do with 10 or 1000 times that amount. What would a Billion Dollar funded Linux Foundation do?
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#54first they mock you, then they fight you, then they coopt you, then they win.
Don't forget that we have the New Microsoft[tm]! Source: Hacker News.
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#55Everytime I see a big corporation donate money to a software project, I like to imagine what the software project would do with 10 or 1000 times that amount. What would a Billion Dollar funded Linux Foundation do?
Fight about who gets the money.
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#56Everytime I see a big corporation donate money to a software project, I like to imagine what the software project would do with 10 or 1000 times that amount. What would a Billion Dollar funded Linux Foundation do?
As the Mythical Man-Mnth says, you can't build software faster by adding more programmers.
So not much, unless the work they have to do is highly parallelizable (i.e. can be broken up), and would truly benefit from more developers.
I can imagine KDE benefiting from this, because KDE is an umbrella organization with hundreds (if not thousands) of projects underneath it.
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#57 The company has become an enthusiastic supporter of Linux
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#58Embrace(check), extend(check), and extinguish(?)
I don't get why people downvote this post. It's like everyone completely forgot about Halloween documents[1]. We should be very careful with Microsoft. [1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halloween_documents
It's hard to find someone who was there as an intern in 1998, much less in a leadership position.
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#59Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don't get why people downvote this post. It's like everyone completely forgot about Halloween documents[1]. We should be very careful with Microsoft. [1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halloween_documents
That was 1998. Eighteen years ago.
Do you really think they have changed? They got this "We are good guys now" talk going on recently and I'm not against it, but I have lost all trust in them, they have to gain it back and can only prove themselves with actions now.
On a side note, I'm also displeased with microsoft's products I'm almost forced to use. Can you imagine that uninstallation of Visual Studio 2015 from SSD takes 20 minutes? And it doesn't even fully uninstall it. Windows updates are no better. Really makes you wonder if it's still 1998 at Microsoft.
Re: Microsoft Becomes Linux Foundation Platinum Member
#60Everytime I see a big corporation donate money to a software project, I like to imagine what the software project would do with 10 or 1000 times that amount. What would a Billion Dollar funded Linux Foundation do?
uh, well, redhat is worth $14B and i'd say at least $1B of that value has been dumped into its open source projects over the years (of which there are a LOT), so we already know what that looks like.
i think the frontier you are speculating about is currently at 2 or 3 times that magnitude. what does a $100B-$1T of market capitalization behind linux and its ecosystem look like?
i think the major players are aligning to answer that question... we'll find out soon enough.