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by damon 2808 days ago
What's interesting to me is how serious Nadella's Microsoft is about embracing OSS. Consider his appointment as a line in the sand and look at how drastically the company has changed since that line was drawn.

I realize that doesn't make the actions done prior to 2014 right. But I do feel the company has been serious about advancing OSS since Nadella took over as CEO.
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executesorder66 2807 days ago
Yeah, I like how after 2014 they decided to push ads into their paid OS. And how they forced "upgrades" to windows10 for millions of people who didn't want it.

They are truly a company that cares about openness and giving back control of the device the the people who fucking paid for it.

No wait, they aren't. They are still just a bunch of assholes like always.

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beokop 2808 days ago
They’re only embracing OSS because the price of software is now zero. If your software is free there’s seldom reason for it not to be libre also.
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