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Re:Microsoft Becomes Sponsor of Open Source Initiative by giancarlostoro on Wednesday September 27, 2017 @07:56AM (#15346860)
and yet they also have things like this:

https://github.com/dotnet/core/blob/master/LICENSE.TXT

https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/blob/master/LICENSE.txt

Can't really say nothing's changed if a lot has. I personally believe they need to refine their OS department, clearly that side of the company needs serious change. I say this after having heard of all the oddities from Windows 10 (their latest and current OS) and how awful it is to remove software from Windows 10.

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Re:Microsoft Becomes Sponsor of Open Source Initiative by cjsuk on Wednesday September 27, 2017 @12:01PM (#15349132)
That's only there because they know no one can fork and commit to maintain a codebase that size. Same reason no one forked Linux. They still have 100% control over it.
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Re:Microsoft Becomes Sponsor of Open Source Initiative by giancarlostoro on Wednesday September 27, 2017 @01:04PM (#15349835)
https://github.com/flagello/Essence

That's one fork of VS Code. Not sure how to find projects implementing .NET Core I do know Mono is implementing code from .NET Core though see:

http://www.mono-project.com/docs/about-mono/dotnet-integrati...

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Re:Microsoft Becomes Sponsor of Open Source Initiative by justinclift on Wednesday September 27, 2017 @07:51PM (#15353395)
That Essence repo hasn't received any new commits in months. Maybe not a good example of a successful fork?
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