Microsoft buying GitHub ... Mercy!

[snippsat]

Hm! They were against for open source for ages and now they support it? It's kind of hypocrisy. Linux is cancer?

There has been some changes lately.
Microsoft's join The Linux Foundation

Microsoft has changed.
Today's Microsoft supports Debian GNU/Linux on Azure and has its own Linux certification.
2016's Microsoft offers the open-source Hadoop big data software on Ubuntu and its CEO proclaims that Microsoft loves Linux.
Microsoft even has its own specialized Linux distribution: Azure Cloud Switch.

Just to make it clear so i am no Microsoft fan-boy at all,
they have done a lot of stupid stuff in the past.

For GitHub have to wait and see what they do,
they know very well that stupid decisions with GitHub will be very bad for them.

[Larz60+]

Microsoft Linux:

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2018/04/micr...ure-sphere

I think , perhaps, they will rename ls as dir.

[wavic]

Yes, I see all that. I'm just waiting. Trust is easy to lose, but hard to win. Especially when it's lost once.

[micseydel]

https://www.theverge.com/2018/6/8/174410...foundation
The Linux Foundation approves, apparently.

[wavic]

For sure! I suppose that MS's donation is not small at all. I would celebrate too.