This week Jonathan chats with Ben Meadors and Rob Campbell about the boatload of software Microsoft just released as Open Source! What’s the motivation, why is the new Edit interesting, and what’s up with Copilot? Watch to find out!
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TurboVision-based editors were far better. This is a load of M$ crapware, as usual.
Open source is good PR if you want the techs to love you. And cloud-based services’ PR, I suppose, should naturally target techies and not the end users. Just don’t forget how .Net came about, Microsoft had the intent of building a Java clone that was incompatible with Java and was sued and had to give up on it. At the time it was considered as a move to disrupt Java… I don’t think they are currently doing the same to Linux but you never know. But you said it all: Microsoft wants to be a cloud business and most of the cloud runs on Linux… If you can’t beat ’em, join ’em.