[Legion]

I think patch versus pull request is a valid complaint, but there's absolutely no reason to be snarky about it.

Everything else just reeks of MS bashing that reinforces the negative view of the open source crowd that many on the MS side of the divide have.

Github is looking to pull the Windows crowd into their world; on the blog, they stated that as an explicit goal for their hiring of Phil Haack.

So, please, play nice. I would much rather Github stay a fairly harmonious place than be another open source vs. MS battleground.

[jf]

> So, please, play nice.

Working on it. Microsoft is a big company.

[burgerbrain]

The complaint about the size is most certainly not just "MS bashing". Dumping massive flawed pieces of code on people out of the blue and expecting them to be grateful is bad form, no matter who you are.

Unfortunately this seems to be Microsoft's MO.

[Gigablah]

How are the MS people who submitted the patch "expecting" others to be "grateful"?

[burgerbrain]

Perhaps they are not, but the people complaining about "snark" are what I am talking about.

Anyway, my point is that complaints about the size are very valid.

[moe]

no reason to be snarky

Really?

Until very recently Microsoft did actively fight the OSS movement with claws and teeth. Now they suddenly embrace us and we're not even allowed to be snarky?

Sentiments aside; as Antirez points out, supporting a win32-port would be a ball on a chain. If Microsoft really suddenly wants to be friends then they should step up and maintain a fork on their own budget instead of throwing a half-baked patch on the floor and expecting someone else to gift ongoing support to a for-profit company.

Otherwise, in my very personal opinion, they can just go to hell.

[nitrogen]

I would have upvoted this post, but for the last line. Much of Microsoft's past (and indeed some of its present) is tarnished with unfair competition through secret agreements, patents, etc., but there's probably a better way to express the resentment that has caused.