Re:Microsoft Buys GitHub: The Linux Foundation's Reaction
by wilsonnb2 on Friday June 08, 2018 @10:31AM
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Yes, but the world of software development is radically different now. Microsoft knows that the cloud is where most of their potential for growth is and they think (correctly, in my opinion) that developer goodwill is going to be important in getting more of the cloud market share.
They aren't the biggest player right now, so their main focus is getting people to switch from a different provider (AWS) to Azure. A great way to do that is for the developers to like using Azure more than AWS.
After all, most of Microsoft's "evil years" were when they were on top, not in a distant second place.
I also think that developers have a lot more power in companies, especially smaller and newer companies, than they used.
Re:Microsoft Buys GitHub: The Linux Foundation's Reaction
by ThrowawayR2 on Friday June 08, 2018 @12:36PM
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> ...all while we hated them
Who's "we"? The open-source advocate reviled Microsoft in their own clique but the vast majority of the software industry just quietly went on with their lives.
This hasn't been the case with Microsoft. They had their most successful era, and created (at the time) the richest man in the world, all while we hated them.