Firefox Development Is Moving from Mercurial to Git

Re:Firefox Development Is Moving from Mercurial to Git by PedroBatista on Monday November 06, 2023 @07:45AM (#38161847)

My view about this: Don't be fooled! Microsoft embraced money, opensource is a tool and strategy in order to get more clients/money by being relevant and don't have all the costs of developing everything.

Azure accounts for something like 35-40% of all their revenue, and those pesky tenants insisted on installing Linux and running things on their other than Exchange or Microsoft Dynamics.

With Microsoft there's always a catch. ( they're are not alone of course ).

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Re:Firefox Development Is Moving from Mercurial to Git by philistine on Monday November 06, 2023 @08:10AM (#38162121)

Yeah, people think Microsoft somehow saw the light and completely changed. They didn’t. Microsoft will follow market trends to make money on those. That’s what GitHub and Linux on Azure are. The market’s there, let’s go there.

They also try to influence the market. To build lock-in. They’ve never stopped doing that.

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Re:Firefox Development Is Moving from Mercurial to Git by MRtecno98 on Monday November 06, 2023 @09:50AM (#38163362)

well, if we want to get philosophical, that's kinda the point of free market. Not saying that it always works out well of course, but in this case it did so i don't see anything to criticize to Microsoft per se

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