[youdontknowtho]

MIT isn't good enough? Because they did use MIT.

I want Stallman to give more care to the defense industrial base that produces computers than to making sure that the same defense industrial base has a free f*cking compiler to use on the computers it makes.

[syshum]

>MIT isn't good enough? Because they did use MIT.

Windows is MIT licensed now?

System Center is MIT Licensed?

Visual Studio is MIT Licensed? (not core, core is not Visual Studio, it Github's Atom editor with a MS skin)

I believe I said ALL software not just some side projects

[youdontknowtho]

It's Visual Studio Code...not core. And it's not a skin it's an actively developed fork of Atom.

no windows is not MIT. nor is system center. PowerShell is. PowerShell DSC is. Their OMI broker for Linux is. .Net is. Asp.net is. Their Python tools are. The C# language is developed on video streams with the product team and the community. F# has been open source for a long time. They contribute to Linux, Mesos, docker, Hadoop, and other projects.

I wish that my side projects were as widely used as the C# compiler.

Why don't you just admit that there really isn't anything that they could do. If they did open source Windows you would read some comments written by other people about the code and "pronounce" it the worst code ever written. I can safely say that because here's the thing...YOU'VE ALREADY WON and it's still not enough. Open Source won. They were forced by the sheer awesomeness of it and the energy that people like you brought to open source development to adopt it and push it where ever they possibly can. TAKE YES FOR AN ANSWER. Is Windows OSS yet? Not yet, but that is coming. And when it happens you will still have something negative to say about it because this isn't about anything other than your emotional ties to this Microsoft in your mind that has been your favorite boogeyman for years. Guess what? There are actual boogeymen in the world, but focusing on a software vendor keeps you from having to face that. Every computer you buy validates and enforces the defense industrial base of the west. You capitalist infidel, you. All electronics, really, but computers in particular.

You want Visual Studio to be GPL'd? I want to stop flooding the third world with cheap weapons. They need water, not a text editor. Linux doesn't make them more free and Windows doesn't make you less free. It's a stupid privileged argument. Play with your toys and try to be nice, but don't tell me that your toys are more "right" than mine. That's just fucking stupid.

I have had entirely too much coffee, and it's probably time for a new HN account anyway. Cheers.

[chokolad]

> It's Visual Studio Code...not core. And it's not a skin it's an actively developed fork of Atom.

It's not a fork of Atom. It's independently developed text editor/light IDE which runs on Electron, chromium toolkit created by Atom devs to ease creation of desktop applications using JavaScript and HTML.

[youdontknowtho]

Indeed. I stand corrected, and thank you. That's good to know.