Facebook Dives into Home Device Market with Video Chat Product Named “Portal”

Re:Facebook Dives into Home Device Market with Video Chat Pr... by mynameisvlad on Tuesday January 09, 2018 @01:16PM (#16108324)

I work at Microsoft, and while what you say may be true for the Microsoft of 20 years ago, the Microsoft of today is very heavily involved in OSS. We use and credit open source tools in our day to day products, contribute back to these projects, and open sourcing some of our existing tools like .NET. We're probably not at the level of Google, but far more than you're giving us credit for in this comment.

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Re:Facebook Dives into Home Device Market with Video Chat Pr... by kajecounterhack on Tuesday January 09, 2018 @02:55PM (#16109331)

I'm very aware of the new Satya MSFT and think it's great. But you can't take away distrust built over years of Microsoft saying "we changed" then committing competition-killing bad-faith practices when they think nobody is watching.

Here's to hoping MSFT is actually different today.

Furthermore part of my calculus is that internal culture matters. Last I checked MSFT's internal culture still doesn't value openness and user trust the way Google or Facebook do, where it's a core company value.

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Re:Facebook Dives into Home Device Market with Video Chat Pr... by scarface74 on Tuesday January 09, 2018 @09:48PM (#16112203)

Microsoft saying "we changed" then committing competition-killing bad-faith practices when they think nobody is watching.

As opposed to what Google repeatedly gets slapped by the EU for doing, Facebook vs SnapChat, etc?

Here's to hoping MSFT is actually different today. * Last I checked MSFT's internal culture still doesn't value openness and user trust the way Google or Facebook do, where it's a core company value.*

Google and Facebook both only open source code that doesn't endanger their competitiveness.

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Re:Facebook Dives into Home Device Market with Video Chat Pr... by lucideer on Wednesday January 10, 2018 @06:11AM (#16114087)

As an extremely happy vscode (and typescript) user, and an avid follower of the ChakraCore Node efforts, I'm well aware of the changes. The Windows telemetry stuff is also a recent change though, so I'm afraid your argument doesn't stand up to scrutiny. Any company will have positive sides if you look close enough.

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