Microsoft admits it was wrong about open source

guest · May 19, 2020

Microsoft admits it was wrong about open source
Linux: no longer a cancer
May 19, 2020
https://www.techspot.com/news/85282-microsoft-admits-wrong-about-open-source.html

In context: How times have changed. At the turn of the century, open source was Microsoft’s sworn enemy, with then-CEO Steve Ballmer describing Linux as a “cancer” in 2001. Fast forward almost two decades, and the Redmond firm has now admitted it was wrong.

Speaking at an event hosted by MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL), Microsoft President Brad Smith said: “Microsoft was on the wrong side of history when open source exploded at the beginning of the century, and I can say that about me personally.”

“The good news is that, if life is long enough, you can learn… that you need to change,” he added.
Today, Microsoft is ahead of Facebook, Docker, Google, and many others as the largest contributor to open-source projects.
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Microsoft’s embracing of open source includes the shipping of a full Linux kernel in the next Windows update, and a partnership with Canonical to bring Ubuntu to its OS. There was also the Edge browser’s move to the Chromium engine last year, and the rebooting of PowerToys as an open-source project for Windows 10.
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xxJackxx · May 19, 2020

When you can't eliminate the competition, infiltrate them.

guest · Jul 23, 2020

Microsoft FOSS Fund Arrives to Give Employees Ways to Nominate and Fund Open Source Projects
July 21, 2020
https://winbuzzer.com/2020/07/21/mi...ominate-and-fund-open-source-projects-xcxwbn/

Microsoft is fully behind open source these days, including its Microsoft Loves Linux and the purchase of GitHub. For those of us who watched the company for long enough, it’s something we’ll never quite get used to. To spur further development of open source projects, Redmond has debuted the Microsoft FOSS Fund.

With the Microsoft FOSS Fund, engineers within the company have a way to be part of the nomination and selection process for open source projects. When a project is selected by an employee, Microsoft will provide $10,000 in sponsorship funding.
However, there are some limitations. The project must be linked to the company. it must be able to legally receive funds. Lastly, it cannot be owned by someone working for Microsoft.
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Microsoft's Free and Open Source Software Fund (FOSS Fund)

The Microsoft FOSS Fund provides a direct way for Microsoft engineers to participate in the nomination and selection process to help communities and projects they are passionate about.

A project of the Microsoft Open Source Programs Office, the FOSS Fund provides $10,000 sponsorships to open source projects as selected by Microsoft employees. To help drive an open contribution culture across Microsoft, employees are eligible to select projects for the fund when they participate in projects that are not governed by Microsoft.
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Daveski17 · Jul 23, 2020

xxJackxx said: ↑

When you can't eliminate the competition, infiltrate them.
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You took the words right out of my mouth lol. I still don't trust Mickey. Mind you, I don't run anything MS now.

Joxx · Jul 23, 2020

I'd believe Microsoft's new found love of open source if they made their code open.

EASTER · Jul 23, 2020

Joxx said: ↑

I'd believe Microsoft's new found love of open source if they made their code open.
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Their code is mostly already open and been so after being picked apart to pieces by malware purveyors as well as comedian nerds and reverse engineered by state actors.

Me belly ached for well before Windows 10 that if they really wanted to become a force for technical O/S advancement that they needed to rewrite their source code with new innovative techniques instead of endless patchwork to needle & thread flaws in the current code

guest · Oct 22, 2021

Inside Microsoft’s open source program office
October 22, 2021
https://venturebeat.com/2021/10/22/inside-microsofts-open-source-program-office/

Microsoft hasn’t always been a bastion of open source software (OSS) — former CEO Steve Ballmer once even went so far as to call OSS ‘a cancer’. But it’s changed days at the technology giant, with Ballmer’s successor Satya Nadella going to great lengths to convince the world that it was wrong about open source.

Seven years in the hot seat and counting, Nadella has overseen Microsoft joining the Linux Foundation, the open source initiative (OSI), and the open source security foundation (OSSF). The company has also open-sourced many of its own technologies, including the .NET framework.
Elsewhere, Microsoft is a top contributor to third-party projects such as Google’s Chromium, and let’s not forget that it doled out $7.5 billion for GitHub, the de facto code hosting and collaboration platform for open source projects.
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Underpinning much of this is the humble open source program office (OSPO), which has emerged as an integral part of business operations, ranging from venture capital-backed startups to the tech giants of the world.

OSPOs bring formality and order to companies’ open source endeavors, helping them align project goals with key business objectives, set policies, manage license and compliance issues, and more.
VentureBeat caught up with Stormy Peters, director of Microsoft’s open source programs office, to get the lowdown on Microsoft’s OSPO, its evolution since its launch back in 2014, and the role it plays in helping Microsoft manage its myriad open source efforts.
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NormanF · Oct 22, 2021

mood said: ↑

Microsoft admits it was wrong about open source
Linux: no longer a cancer
May 19, 2020
https://www.techspot.com/news/85282-microsoft-admits-wrong-about-open-source.html
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Let's talk about the cancer: Microsoft's new Edge browser which is entirely built on open source. Pretty good and the company didn't have a choice. It also had nothing to lose.

guest · Jan 8, 2022

mood said: ↑

Microsoft FOSS Fund Arrives to Give Employees Ways to Nominate and Fund Open Source Projects
July 21, 2020
https://winbuzzer.com/2020/07/21/mi...ominate-and-fund-open-source-projects-xcxwbn/

Microsoft's Free and Open Source Software Fund (FOSS Fund)
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Microsoft gifts OpenStreetMap $10,000 in latest FOSS Fund award
January 7, 2022

Microsoft prides itself on working with open source projects, and as part of that has created a FOSS Fund, where the company selects one open source project per month to receive a $10,000 sponsorships. These awards are nominated and voted on by Microsoft employees, and so far they've awarded 16 projects with money to help fund their projects. Projects must be used by Microsoft but not owned by a Microsoft employee, be " actively prioritizing diversity, equity and inclusion," and have an OSI license.

OpenStreetMap is the latest project to receive a FOSS Fund award (via @sunnydeveloper). The popular open source mapping project has had a relationship with Bing Maps since at least 2010, and Microsoft has made contributions with aerial photography and building footprints in an organized Open Maps association with OpenStreetMap.
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Some of the other previously awarded FOSS Fund recipients include OptiKey, a free onscreen keyboard for eye tracking, Grain, a new language targeting WebAssembly, and Syn, a parser for Rust source code.
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