Re:Microsoft Joins the Open Invention Network
by 51lver on Wednesday October 10, 2018 @12:40PM
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Thanks for calling out FOSS. Microsoft's open source contributions absolutely do not enhance our freedom to compute how we wish. Nothing they are doing will help you compute ethically, or prevent someone else from imposing their ethics on you. They are just trying to capture a market of developers that happen to code in the open.
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Re:Microsoft Joins the Open Invention Network
by svick on Wednesday October 10, 2018 @12:55PM
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I'm confused.
Let's say I like C# and I also like Linux. Doesn't them making C# (and .Net) open source and cross-platform enhance my freedom to compute how I wish?
Or is that somehow different from other open source languages, like Python or Rust? How do those help with computing ethically?
Re:Microsoft Joins the Open Invention Network
by 51lver on Wednesday October 10, 2018 @01:53PM
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Your preference indicates that you have been captured. They will use it to move you to a platform they control eventually. Maybe you'll like it, but it won't be more free. It will have a ToS.
Re:Microsoft Joins the Open Invention Network
by linuxftw on Wednesday October 10, 2018 @01:13PM
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> Doesn't them making C# (and .Net) open source and cross-platform enhance my freedom to compute how I wish?
Why do you need this on Linux? Only to integrate with MS proprietary products, that's why.
Re:Microsoft Joins the Open Invention Network
by svick on Wednesday October 10, 2018 @01:47PM
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I don't need it. I want it, because C# is my favorite programming language. Isn't that what freedom is about?
This means that when I'm writing a website or a Docker microservice, I want to use C#. And since the best OS to run those is Linux, there are no proprietary MS products in sight.
When I'm writing a cross-platform desktop application, I want to use C# too, but I can't, so I'll use another language.