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by yjftsjthsd-h 1249 days ago
> changed leadership to a team that embraces open source years ago

Before or after they were shaking down Android OEMs over FAT? Microsoft didn't change, they're just operating in a market where they can't get away with as much.
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jefftk 1249 days ago
> Before or after they were shaking down Android OEMs over FAT?

Looks like that was 2010: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_Allocation_Table#Challeng...

Nadella started in 2014.

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mixmastamyk 1249 days ago
What about forcing Windows upgrades? What about endemic telemetry with no/constant-shifting off switches? What about dark patterns to all but force folks to create a online account? The first big tech co to jump in bed with the NSA?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31727293

The truth is the culture at MS hasn't changed much even as the world around it has.

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jefftk 1249 days ago
None of that is about their relationship to open source.

There are still lots of reasons to dislike Microsoft, but their interaction with open source has dramatically improved in the last 10-20 years.

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mixmastamyk 1249 days ago
To clarify my point, is that if we know where the priorities of MS lie... and as demonstrated we know from experience that the needs of MS come first. Then extrapolating to their open source telemetry is a no-brainer.
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WorldMaker 1249 days ago
After. That was also closer to a decade ago now than not. (It was settled in October 2015. Microsoft released an Open Patent Agreement with Android manufacturers a few years after that and dropped licensing fees at that time.)
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