> You know something's broken when Microsoft gets to claim to be the biggest backer of open source.

They can say whatever they want. They're just lying. If you spend even a little bit of time looking into it you'll find it's just a marketing strategy.

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delichon 6 days ago | parent [-]

I spent a little time looking into it, and it turns out that Microsoft owns an outfit named GitHub, which apparently offers free hosting for open source projects and is used by a lot of open source software makers. And Microsoft has around 4k employees with contributions to OS projects on GitHub. So maybe "biggest" is a lie in light of their anti-OS efforts, but it is at least arguable. Can you propose a bigger one?

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yencabulator 6 days ago | parent | next [-]

Microsoft is the biggest supporter of Microsoft gaining market share.

	▲	jen20 6 days ago \| parent [-]
		Red Hat is the biggest supported of Red Hat gaining market share. They are also a big supporter of open source... I'm not claiming Microsoft is a good actor (and they certainly produce a whole lot of derpy trash along the way), but the argument itself is not particular sound.

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account42 5 days ago | parent | prev [-]

You mean the outfit that has misappropriated the code of those hosted projects to train their commercial code generator which is a very clear violation of the spirit if not the letter of the licenses of many of those projects?