You can’t trust them as far as you can throw them.
Can we trust Microsoft with Open Source? (2021)
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Re: Can we trust Microsoft with Open Source? (2021)
#92Nope, and they’ve proven time and time again that we can’t trust them in any way shape or form
https://web.archive.org/web/20230315200925/http://antitrust.... What did changed since Microsoft used ACPI as tool against Linux? Enforced Auto-Updates, Ads, Cloud Account enforcement, Blocking Firefox partially in Teams [1], Setting Teams as Browser (Edge?), WSL (intent is not compatibility, it is to prevent migrations to Linux), Azure is a giant security problem and finally the deal with Qualcomm (hinder Linux on A…
Except they changed their mind on their CoPilot+ devices, as it is a required piece.
WSL is the proof how Desktop Linux isn't happening, while everyone keeps pushing for their snowflake distribution.
They aren't alone, Google on Chromebooks, Android, and Apple with Virtualization Framework, are all variants of what WSL achieves.
None of them has bothered to actually support the Year of Desktop Linux.
Re: Can we trust Microsoft with Open Source? (2021)
#93Doesn't matter.
Linux contributions, Github, node/npm, Visual Studio, OpenJDK contributions to JIT and ARM, finally performance matters to CPython, Haskell,..
Turns out open source devs do have bills to pay, and Microsoft gives good checks.
Re: Can we trust Microsoft with Open Source? (2021)
#94Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'd originally told them "just follow the docs" because normally Microsoft's documentation is top notch, but this time I was dead wrong. MS' docs have been on a steady decline ever since they moved away from MSDN and went to an "open source" "community project" with them. For some of the newer stuff, a page without any spelling or grammar errors or unnaturally odd phrasing is exceedingly rare, and I have heard that t…
Apple’s docs also have gone downhill since the 90s. Does anybody still make good documentation?
I've found MDN and the Rust programming language docs to be pretty solid.
Re: Can we trust Microsoft with Open Source? (2021)
#95Earlier quoted context omitted.
What makes Fedora better (apart from having more recent packages)?
No snaps, better reliability during upgrades, more trustworthy devs. That was enough for me to switch some of my machines.
I never upgrade Ubuntu straight away, because I don't want to deal with broken packages.
Re: Can we trust Microsoft with Open Source? (2021)
#96Earlier quoted context omitted.
No snaps, better reliability during upgrades, more trustworthy devs. That was enough for me to switch some of my machines.
I never upgrade Ubuntu straight away, because I don't want to deal with broken packages.
Imagine a world where the distro tests its updates.
You should check out Fedora.
Re: Can we trust Microsoft with Open Source? (2021)
#97My personal moment where Microsoft briefly showed me its true form:
Microsoft's Python language server extension for VS Code (Pylance) has been crashing on launch on one of my machines for twelve months or so.
One day, I got fed up with it and opened the extension in a JS debugger to investigate. Immediately after opening it, the extension fully deliberately DoSed [0] the CPU core with a full-on ReDoS [1] attack, leaving it spinning at 100% forever.
Re: Can we trust Microsoft with Open Source? (2021)
#98Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'd originally told them "just follow the docs" because normally Microsoft's documentation is top notch, but this time I was dead wrong. MS' docs have been on a steady decline ever since they moved away from MSDN and went to an "open source" "community project" with them. For some of the newer stuff, a page without any spelling or grammar errors or unnaturally odd phrasing is exceedingly rare, and I have heard that t…
Apple’s docs also have gone downhill since the 90s. Does anybody still make good documentation?
I enjoy and appreciate Slack API reference.
Re: Can we trust Microsoft with Open Source? (2021)
#99My personal moment where Microsoft briefly showed me its true form: Microsoft's Python language server extension for VS Code (Pylance) has been crashing on launch on one of my machines for twelve months or so. One day, I got fed up with it and opened the extension in a JS debugger to investigate. Immediately after opening it, the extension fully deliberately DoSed [0] the CPU core with a full-on ReDoS [1] attack, lea…
Your first reaction is to attribute this specific situation to intentional malice?
Re: Can we trust Microsoft with Open Source? (2021)
#100Earlier quoted context omitted.
What makes Fedora better (apart from having more recent packages)?
No snaps, better reliability during upgrades, more trustworthy devs. That was enough for me to switch some of my machines.
If someone is looking for a snap-less system, but will like to stay in the Debian/Ubuntu ecosystem, do give Linux Mint a look.