Microsoft Buys GitHub: The Linux Foundation’s Reaction
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Microsoft Buys GitHub: The Linux Foundation’s Reaction
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Re: Microsoft Buys GitHub: The Linux Foundation’s Reaction
#2If Microsoft is such a great open source citizen this day, why are they charging billions in patent licensing fees to people building things on Android?
It seems like one of the benefits of being really big is that you can act like the evil stuff is only 5% of your business, even if it’s the evil stuff that made you big in the first place.
Re: Microsoft Buys GitHub: The Linux Foundation’s Reaction
#3If Microsoft is such a great open source citizen this day, why are they charging billions in patent licensing fees to people building things on Android? It seems like one of the benefits of being really big is that you can act like the evil stuff is only 5% of your business, even if it’s the evil stuff that made you big in the first place.
You don't have to be 100% open source to be a good open source citizen. That's just nonsensical.
Re: Microsoft Buys GitHub: The Linux Foundation’s Reaction
#4I really hope Microsoft makes Github even more useful to developers and not screw it up. Fingers crossed.
Re: Microsoft Buys GitHub: The Linux Foundation’s Reaction
#5If you click on the members page you'll learn that Github is a gold member and microsoft is a platinum member of the linux foundation.
Re: Microsoft Buys GitHub: The Linux Foundation’s Reaction
#6I really hope Microsoft makes Github even more useful to developers and not screw it up. Fingers crossed.
Think we all hope that :D
Re: Microsoft Buys GitHub: The Linux Foundation’s Reaction
#7If you click on the members page you'll learn that Github is a gold member and microsoft is a platinum member of the linux foundation. https://www.linuxfoundation.org/membership/members/
Actually Github is Silver, along with LinkedIn...
And Google is only Silver.
Re: Microsoft Buys GitHub: The Linux Foundation’s Reaction
#8If you click on the members page you'll learn that Github is a gold member and microsoft is a platinum member of the linux foundation. https://www.linuxfoundation.org/membership/members/
Actually Github is Silver, along with LinkedIn... And Google is only Silver.
> Actually Github is Silver
My bad, I scrolled too fast.