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Eclipse Foundation Gains New Member: Microsoft

posted by martyb on Friday March 11 2016, @06:56AM   Printer-friendly
from the getting-together? dept.

We had two Soylentils submit stories on Microsoft's joining the Eclipse Foundation:

Eclipse Foundation Gains Member

butthurt writes:

Coincident with a solar eclipse, Microsoft Corp. has joined the Eclipse Foundation. The company has also made its Team Explorer Everywhere software, "the official TFS [Team Foundation Server] plug-in for Eclipse," available in source form under an MIT-style licence.

coverage:

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MSFT is Sinking its Claws Into the Eclipse Foundation

-- OriginalOwner_ writes:

from the openwashing dept.

TechRights reports

Microsoft is Turning Eclipse Into a Proprietary Software Tool by Sinking its Claws Into the Eclipse Foundation

Microsoft is spreading proprietary software and surveillance, extorting Linux with software patents, and [...] contaminating FOSS frameworks--all in less than a single day

Less than a day after the latest "loves Linux" nonsense, we begin to see puff pieces, e.g. [1, 2, 3], which seem more like Microsoft advertisements than actual journalism. No critical thinking, no background/research, no fact-checking. Nothing. Just parroting Microsoft's marketing/propaganda.

"Microsoft today announced that it is joining the Eclipse Foundation," one 'journalist' wrote, "the open source group that's probably best known for its Eclipse IDE, but which also offers a number of other developer tools."

This is "embrace, extend, extinguish", for reasons we already explained in [...] past articles.

[...] Eclipse is actually against software patents, which Microsoft uses against Linux even this week. What was the leadership of Eclipse thinking here? That Microsoft has changed? That there's a 'new' Microsoft? No such thing, it's all marketing/reputation laundering.

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  • (Score: 0, Disagree) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 11 2016, @09:49AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 11 2016, @09:49AM (#316962)

    We need another category for submissions besides "Accepted" and "Rejected". [soylentnews.org]

    Merged? Unified? Enfolded? Amalgamated?

    -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 11 2016, @02:44PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 11 2016, @02:44PM (#317026)

    No. You don't even bother to register a handle - what do you care if a story is "unified" or "enfolded" or whatever as long as it gets posted in some fashion.

  • (Score: 2) by takyon on Friday March 11 2016, @05:07PM

    by takyon (881) <{takyon} {at} {soylentnews.org}> on Friday March 11 2016, @05:07PM (#317073) Journal

    How about "Original"? Oh look, you can click it.

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