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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: 2) by bitstream on Friday March 11 2016, @12:58PM

    by bitstream (6144) on Friday March 11 2016, @12:58PM (#316994) Journal

    Developers need to move on I presume.

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  • (Score: 2) by c0lo on Friday March 11 2016, @01:42PM

    by c0lo (156) on Friday March 11 2016, @01:42PM (#317008) Journal
    I might be wrong, but it seems it is the MS that feels the pinch of a reducing number of devs using their Visual Studio - otherwise why accepting the extra cost of developing yet-another-solution?

    Developers need to move on I presume.

    I'm afraid I lost you on this one.

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    • (Score: 2) by bitstream on Friday March 11 2016, @01:56PM

      by bitstream (6144) on Friday March 11 2016, @01:56PM (#317013) Journal

      Move on to avoid the entanglements of Microsoft. It's their ecosystem, way of thinking, business models etc.

      • (Score: 2) by c0lo on Friday March 11 2016, @02:20PM

        by c0lo (156) on Friday March 11 2016, @02:20PM (#317020) Journal

        Move on to avoid the entanglements of Microsoft.

        Nope, they can continue to ignore MS forays into Eclipse's territory without any extra risks.

        Everything working under Eclipse is a plugin - if you don't need something, you don't install the plugin (or, if pre-installed, you remove it).

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