[dba-Tech] An interesting Podcast about the ciders of today

[Jim Lawrence]

As many of us are no longer "down in the trenches", as they say, I have been listening to great series of weekly podcasts so to keep my "finger" on the pulse of the current developers. This production is made with real developers, not newsy guys or rah, rah company boyz or even tinkerers but people make their living coding. I find it very refreshing:  

https://coder.show/329

Aside: This podcast briefly touches on the great Microsoft migration from pure proprietary Windows to Open Source and Linux. Azure is mostly Linux. Built on top of Linux like any other distro (distribution) and now mostly runs Linux application (https://zd.net/2JekZLV and https://read.bi/2yvJUWV ...this link is dated but the trends are obvious) Microsoft have moved a significant number of their patients to MIT licensing (http://bit.ly/2ScmCOb) A couple of products that have been OSed(?) are Powershell and MS SQL. (The reason Powershell runs Linux is not because a series of wrappers were built, but because core Linux was inserted into the product. MS SQL is also inserting code from a number of OS flat base file systems....this is exciting.) If there was a war between Linux and Microsoft, it apparently is over...even Ballmer agrees. ;-) 

The one disappointment, I will express is the the licencing of Microsoft product is under the MIT licencing and not under the GPL licencing model: http://bit.ly/2D04Zg8 As much of the code inserted into the new MS applications were designed under the GPL licencing model is there any legal conflict?

Jim