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by ses4j 5163 days ago
The comments here seem brutally negative, but I applaud Microsoft for yet another step in what seems to me to be a firm-wide aggressive embrace of open source tech. The Microsoft of yore would not have built this at all, let alone released this on Github.
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> The comments here seem brutally negative,(...) firm-wide aggressive embrace of open source tech.

Some of us still remember how Microsoft used to Extend and Extinguish right after Embracing. Protocols, formats, standards; you name it, they did it. It is true the company seems changing to better, but you can't re-build damaged reputation overnight.

For example, http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3900348

> The comments here seem brutally negative (...)

Those aren't that brutal yet. Read up some discussion on software patents. Or on PHP ;-)