stuff, benefitting more devs than any other company has in the past 10 years, just so that they could maybe take over the oss market?
MS is, funnily enough, one of the corporations that contribute most to the open source community
people will still complain, because this isn't utopia yet
Contributing the most does not automatically undo everything they did in the past and mean they will do no harm in the future
True, but Ballmer left. He's the biggest reason they were dicks.
"they're good now but they'll be worse later" is ignoring the actual stuff thinking of something that maybe might happen
Satya Nadella realised that MS was in trouble when his staff were using Mac and Linux to develop and using Chrome and Firefox instead of IE/Edge....
Depends on what you consider the "open source community". They haven't done a lot for Linux.
You're dead wrong if you think they've not helped improve key components like the Linux kernel
They have improved the kernel, yes, but in terms of helping the Linux desktop their efforts have been limited
Why would they help with that? What's in it for them?
If they truly cared they wouldnt only do things that benefits them
Only looking at the current events is pretty naive.
and statistically most predictions of the future are wrong
So it's not enough that someone open sources the work that benefits them, they should also contribute to things that don't benefit them?
Well you can look at the past, Satya's not exactly new, he's been in Microsoft for a long time and in a decision making capacity at least for 8 years
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