{"id":1176,"date":"2016-03-18T20:42:14","date_gmt":"2016-03-18T19:42:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/monodes.com\/predaelli\/?p=1176"},"modified":"2016-03-18T14:43:01","modified_gmt":"2016-03-18T13:43:01","slug":"they-got-an-elephant-in-the-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/monodes.com\/predaelli\/2016\/03\/18\/they-got-an-elephant-in-the-house\/","title":{"rendered":"They got an Elephant In the House"},"content":{"rendered":"

From: Microsoft Tries Hard To Play Nice With Open Source, But There’s an Elephant In the Room – Slashdot<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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Esther Schindler<\/a> writes: They’re trying, honest they are. In 2016 alone, writes Steven Vaughan-Nichols, Microsoft announced SQL Server on Linux<\/a>; integrated Eclipse and Visual Studio<\/a>, launched an open-source network stack on Debian Linux<\/a>; and it’s adding Ubuntu Linux to its Azure Stack hybrid-cloud offering<\/a>. That’s all well and good, he says, but it’s not enough. There’s one thing Microsoft could do to gain real open-source trust: Stop forcing companies to pay for its bogus Android patents. But, there’s too much money at stake, writes sjvn, for this to ever happen. For instance, in its last quarter, volume licensing and patents, accounted for approximately 9% of Microsoft’s total revenue<\/a>.<\/i><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n
Quite right. But I also acknowledge that also SirJorgelOfBorgel<\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/small><\/span>is quite reasonable:<\/div>\n

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At this point, a large part of IT simply will never appreciate Microsoft, no matter what they do.<\/p>\n

“We’d trust them if they’d only do X!” No, you wouldn’t. You’d figure out some other reason to hate them.<\/p>\n

News flash, it’s 2016, and Microsoft is no longer the most evil or dangerous bigcorp out there. Apple, Google, and Facebook, have all surpassed Microsoft. Can we get back to some actual issues?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

I can’t forget we were called “a cancer<\/em>” but I must earnestly acknowledge that they weren’t the most evil knight anymore. They turned into a “lawful newtral” entity, speaking<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From: Microsoft Tries Hard To Play Nice With Open Source, But There’s an Elephant In the Room – Slashdot Esther Schindler writes: They’re trying, honest they are. In 2016 alone, writes Steven Vaughan-Nichols, Microsoft announced SQL Server on Linux; integrated Eclipse and Visual Studio, launched an open-source network stack on Debian Linux; and it’s adding…<\/p>\n

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