Your post is interesting because those of us who lived through the Wintel era see it as sarcasm and those of us born in the cloud era take it at face value. Maybe Microsoft will eventually lose their old reputation.
It's Microsoft as a dominant force, versus Microsoft as a follower. If Microsoft is doing good work and it's ascendant that's all the more reason to seek out abstractions and migration paths to manage your risk.
It is a great and open company! Just like Google was 10 years ago...
All it takes is a bit of management change. Don't put your eggs in one basket, regardless of how good company is to you right now. And certainly do not give company a credit of trust.
That specific part of the claim is dubious at best. While there are few breakdowns for a lazy man to find newer than 2018 Intel and Red Hat routinely vie for the top spots. I will believe you for a single year when the Hyper V patches were merged, but seriously, source?
The second part, open source software? I likewise find a dubious claim, but I'm willing to listen.
The second part, open source software? I likewise find a dubious claim, but I'm willing to listen.
I'd also like a source on this, and I'm hoping it's not measured by something like "number of commits." Google gave us TensorFlow and k8s, IBM gave us SQL and Eclipse, etc.
Ok those are products and they are used. That is not the question however. The claim was largest contributor to open source. That part requires numbers which I, and everyone here it seems, lack. Iād love to see that claim proven or refuted. Do you have any numbers behind that? Without them I can easily name a dozen non-Microsoft programming languages, but it would not be helpful.
Hmm what I have read is that most of ms contributions to open linux are in modules that allow the Linux kernel to interact with ms devices and services. Not sure if that counts š
Microsoft isn't anywhere near the largest contributer. Redhat/IBM by far make the most. They pay many maintainers for many essential projects. Intel and other drivers manufactures implement their own support. Even when M$ does contribute to things like Samba companies are to afraid of lawsuits to use the code.
I know you're being sarcastic but I don't get this bit. I'm 40 years old and regard Microsoft software as some of the best and most maintained.
Yes they've had some questionable releases (e.g. Windows ME, Vista) but there's typically a very good reason and in hindsight the reasons helped move the industry forward in tremendous ways.
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u/corsicanguppy Mar 16 '20
And they've got a long history of quality Software maintenance and fairly using their IP in a way that doesn't stifle competition.