Microsoft acquires Github

Re:Microsoft acquires Github by sleavey on Monday June 04, 2018 @12:32PM (#17229522)

I'd believe them if they open sourced Windows. They could still keep their web platforms (Office365, Azure, etc.) closed but it would be a huge statement to open up Windows 10.

(Never going to happen, not just for philosophical reasons, but I'm sure legal reasons too)

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Re:Microsoft acquires Github by leeter on Monday June 04, 2018 @12:38PM (#17229604)

I think the biggest issue would be the audit. Recall that NT started out as part of OS/2 which is owned by IBM. I suspect that Edge/IE has similar issues, because it was evolved from NCSA Mosaic it probably has legal issues preventing it from being open sourced.

I know for a fact that the ZIP component of the windows shell would be an issue as that is definitely licensed to Microsoft instead of being owned by.

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Re:Microsoft acquires Github by dkersten on Tuesday June 05, 2018 @07:02AM (#17236533)

Open what they can and keep binary blobs of stuff they can’t?

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Re:Microsoft acquires Github by ksk on Monday June 04, 2018 @01:58PM (#17230318)

GitHub was closed source, so its a good fit.

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