Posted on 03/17/2020 11:36:06 AM PDT by Varmint Al
Microsoft has been betting big on open source for past few years. Apart from open sourcing a few things here and there, Microsoft is contributing a lot to Linux kernel (for its Azure cloud platform).
To further strengthen its position in the open source world, Microsoft acquired the popular open source code hosting platform GitHub for $7.5 billion.
Now Microsoft owned GitHub has acquired npm ( short for Node Package Manager). npm is the world’s largest software registry with more than 1.3 million packages that have 75 billion downloads a month. ...snip...
Good Hunting... from Varmint Al
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I thought that the Windows Registry was already the worlds largest.
bfl
Can’t escape them, can we? Anything good gets Borged.
Ping.
GitHub CEO Nat Friedman assured that Microsoft intends to keep the npm registry available as open-source and free to developers.
Open source was never largely the product of individuals doing really hard unique work for free.
UNIX system and utilities code was widely available, though not free. Many people borrowed a lot of code.
Government and university money paid a whole lot of contributors.
Open source without any ownership interest is as stupid as communism.
Lol.
The world’s largest piece of malware, maybe.
I’d love to see MS build Win11 (or whatever the next-gen OS will be called) on a Linux kernel so that damn registry (and DLL hell) can finally be consigned to the dustbin of history.
Thanks to Army Air Corps for the ping!
After XP and Win-7, everything MS has touched has turned to crap.
Win 10 certainly sucks bilgewater.
One of their forced updates was incompatible with my graphics card leaving me with a black screen.
Took me a couple hours learning how to revert it back and turn off forced updates which is more difficult than it sounds, you have to tell the computer you’re on a “metered connection”.
I would not dispute any of your personal experience.
Microsoft was better at all of those practices than other companies that did the same sort of stuff.
If creators of popular open source sites didn’t sell to Microsoft, Microsoft would not become the owner.
Don’t say they would be forced, or destroyed. It’s not that simple. MS doesn’t have that much power.
Too many open source advocates just have a little too much personal dislike or anger at Microsoft.
That’s been my personal experience.
Microsoft being evil does not win one single technical point, ever.
20 years ago I routinely asked MS-haters if their mom or granny could use a computer powered by X or Java without any MS stuff.
To this day, various nerds will recite long incantations of stuff they wired together to be sort of productive, but they never answered the question.
Oh yeah also, why isn’t Apple open source?
You can’t really criticize the quality of their stuff the way you sort-of can about MS.
> 20 years
impressed!
They are as admired as disliked.
You’re a buffoon, unfortunately.
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