Re:GitHub Is Microsoft’s $7.5B Undo Button
by ethomson on Thursday June 07, 2018 @03:16AM
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As a Microsoft employee, I use Mac, Linux and Windows regularly. I write code in vim. I write quick-and-dirty scripts in Perl or Ruby. I’ve shipped code in Java, C and C#. I browse the web in Chrome. I push to GitHub and VSTS.
Microsoft doesn’t force employees to use Microsoft tools; Microsoft forces employees to think critically, empathize with our users and build great experiences for them.
Re:GitHub Is Microsoft’s $7.5B Undo Button
by ionised on Thursday June 07, 2018 @08:42AM
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empathize with our users
So why isn't this reflected in their actions?
Re:GitHub Is Microsoft’s $7.5B Undo Button
by outside1234 on Thursday June 07, 2018 @02:01AM
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Cmon, google does the same thing, Facebook does the same thing. They are all at the scale where they can’t adopt random JavaScript framework of the week.
Re:GitHub Is Microsoft’s $7.5B Undo Button
by partycoder on Thursday June 07, 2018 @03:10AM
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Google cares about ads and Facebook cares about monopolizing social graph tech with ad targeting applications.
Microsoft historically wanted to monopolize everything. Your operating system, developer tools, office suites, Internet browsers... everything.
Re:GitHub Is Microsoft’s $7.5B Undo Button
by outside1234 on Tuesday June 12, 2018 @06:18PM
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Yes you are right - Google definitely isn't a monopoly around search nor Facebook for social networks.
Re:GitHub Is Microsoft’s $7.5B Undo Button
by chrisweekly on Thursday June 07, 2018 @07:26AM
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No citation handy but IIRC MS recently became the world's largest contributor to open source, by at least some measure. I'm no M$ apologist, having been in webdev for 20 years, but let's not let caricatures stand in for reality.
Read that again and think about the culture they have at Microsoft, then think about the open source culture if it's the same. Do Microsoft embrace open source?