[dba-Tech] FYI: "Microsoft is turning over a new leaf".

Hans-Christian Andersen hans.andersen at phulse.com
Fri Apr 4 18:49:33 CDT 2014


Apple is not an open source company or a proponent of it in any significant way, but they have done more for open source than Microsoft has and they do contribute more to open source because much of their operating systems depend on it.

Saying that, this was not a criticism of Microsoft. I think its great they are open sourcing some of their tools. I'm just being realistic about what their motives were. They didn't do it out of benevolence any more than Apple did with WebKit, for instance. It's a means to an end. Not some grand gesture of acceptance of open source software.

- Hans


> On Apr 4, 2014, at 12:06 PM, Jim Lawrence <accessd at shaw.ca> wrote:
> 
> Hi Hans:
> 
> My thoughts is what ever works. I care little with whether choice was out of fear or benevolence.
> 
> It seems that Microsoft is the biggest bastion of proprietary software and one of its strongest proponents. It is good to see a change of faith even if it is only a little, tentative and a bit late. Every positive move should be encouraged.
> 
> Now there is Apple. ;-)
> 
> Jim 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Hans-Christian Andersen" <hans.andersen at phulse.com>
> To: "Discussion of Hardware and Software issues" <dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com>
> Sent: Friday, April 4, 2014 9:23:33 AM
> Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] FYI: "Microsoft is turning over a new leaf".
> 
> I wouldn't call it opening up to open source, but rather desperation to gain more adoption.
> 
> Best regards,
> Hans-Christian Andersen
> 
> 
>> On 4 Apr 2014, at 08:39, Salakhetdinov Shamil <mcp2004 at mail.ru> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi All,
>> 
>> They finally did it. Isn't it too late?
>> 
>> http://readwrite.com/2014/04/03/microsoft-open-source-dot-net-foundation-roslyn-winjs
>> 
>> See also:
>> 
>> http://www.dotnetfoundation.org/
>> 
>> http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/roslyn.aspx
>> 
>> http://readwrite.com/2014/04/03/winjs-microsoft-javascript-library-framework-github
>> 
>> 
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