Besides, even to this day, most (if not all) of their "support" for open source is about getting it to play more nicely with Windows or trying to prevent people who insist on using open source from jumping ship to Linux, not supporting it for its own sake.

I'll believe Microsoft actually supports open source when they start porting things like Office or Flight Simulator to Linux, not before.

[–] alsaaas@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 3 months ago

Yeah but I think that this highlights something quite well: Open Source is inherently corporate. It was created as a branch from the free/libre software movement, to extract it's open development model and make it corporate-friendly

"Open Source is just a corporate development model"

[–] Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 19 points 3 months ago (1 children)

"Embrace, Extend, Extinquish"

[–] wander1236@sh.itjust.works 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

If they're doing that, they're playing a very long game.

[–] Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Are they, though? How many game studios did they just buy and immediately shutter? Have they ever NOT been involved in anti-competitive lawsuits?

[–] wander1236@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

We're talking about open source software, not games.

[–] probableprotogen@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Yea they have played nice with FOSS, albeit the game studio craziness is a bunch of bs

[–] msage@programming.dev 3 points 3 months ago

How about the Office format shenanigans?

Do people not know or forget that M$ is only supporting things that don't threaten their bottom line, or things they themselves (ab)use?