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Re: Microsoft Open Source

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Post by ewzimm »

pydry wrote: post #19
kanobo wrote: post #3

I don't know about you youngsters, but I'm in my thirties and it's amazing to watch Microsoft evolve since the 90s. As a teenager I would never have imagined the words 'Open Source' would ever be in a tag on a Microsoft-branded website.

I'm in my thirties too and I'm not at all amazed by the way MS evolved. The three MS open source offerings I have tried where MS has something that resembles a non open source competitor - Azure MySQL, Azure Postgres and WSL are all horrendously slow (I'd go as far as to say deliberately crippled). It's a trap. Every time they've released something big as open source or on Linux (e.g. .NET/vscode) it's been something…

Microsoft is over 163,000 people. While I don't doubt that executives tend to be motivated by profit, I doubt that everyone shares a singular focus on it. Someone in charge of an open source project at Microsoft today might have been working with Mozilla or Apache yesterday.

I know executive leadership sets trends and influences culture, but I don't agree with the idea that a corporation is nothing more than the extension of the leadership's ambitions.

Re: Microsoft Open Source

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Post by kanobo »

pydry wrote: post #19
kanobo wrote: post #3

I don't know about you youngsters, but I'm in my thirties and it's amazing to watch Microsoft evolve since the 90s. As a teenager I would never have imagined the words 'Open Source' would ever be in a tag on a Microsoft-branded website.

I'm in my thirties too and I'm not at all amazed by the way MS evolved. The three MS open source offerings I have tried where MS has something that resembles a non open source competitor - Azure MySQL, Azure Postgres and WSL are all horrendously slow (I'd go as far as to say deliberately crippled). It's a trap. Every time they've released something big as open source or on Linux (e.g. .NET/vscode) it's been something…

I'm not disagreeing, but there's plenty of microsoft closed-source efforts that have been horrible too. It's possible microsoft just isn't very good at everything.

Re: Microsoft Open Source

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Post by pydry »

kanobo wrote: post #33
pydry wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm in my thirties too and I'm not at all amazed by the way MS evolved. The three MS open source offerings I have tried where MS has something that resembles a non open source competitor - Azure MySQL, Azure Postgres and WSL are all horrendously slow (I'd go as far as to say deliberately crippled). It's a trap. Every time they've released something big as open source or on Linux (e.g. .NET/vscode) it's been something…

I'm not disagreeing, but there's plenty of microsoft closed-source efforts that have been horrible too. It's possible microsoft just isn't very good at everything.

I'd be receptive to that view if hosted Microsoft SQL server were also crippled.

Re: Microsoft Open Source

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Post by robbyt »

pydry wrote: post #19
kanobo wrote: post #3

I don't know about you youngsters, but I'm in my thirties and it's amazing to watch Microsoft evolve since the 90s. As a teenager I would never have imagined the words 'Open Source' would ever be in a tag on a Microsoft-branded website.

I'm in my thirties too and I'm not at all amazed by the way MS evolved. The three MS open source offerings I have tried where MS has something that resembles a non open source competitor - Azure MySQL, Azure Postgres and WSL are all horrendously slow (I'd go as far as to say deliberately crippled). It's a trap. Every time they've released something big as open source or on Linux (e.g. .NET/vscode) it's been something…

Hanlon's Razor... I highly doubt they've intentionally crippled the open source ones just to promote MSSQL. So many things are bad on azure, the slow databases are just one part.

Re: Microsoft Open Source

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Post by pydry »

robbyt wrote: post #35
pydry wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm in my thirties too and I'm not at all amazed by the way MS evolved. The three MS open source offerings I have tried where MS has something that resembles a non open source competitor - Azure MySQL, Azure Postgres and WSL are all horrendously slow (I'd go as far as to say deliberately crippled). It's a trap. Every time they've released something big as open source or on Linux (e.g. .NET/vscode) it's been something…

Hanlon's Razor... I highly doubt they've intentionally crippled the open source ones just to promote MSSQL. So many things are bad on azure, the slow databases are just one part.

It's not just the crippling slowness. There's other hints as well.

I probably will move to MS SQL, too. I'm virtually obligated to use azure and it's the only non crippled database available on azure.

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