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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 opinionated_science on Friday March 11 2016, @02:45PM

    by opinionated_science (4031) on Friday March 11 2016, @02:45PM (#317027)

    GPL , FOSS , ONLY. RMS is correct and the continued smear campaigns are an attempt to discredit the core principle in favour of "somethings are different".

    There is no difference. Microsoft is doing this because they have the resources to legally blur any license they touch *except* the GPL, where they publish the source.

    They also have the resources to take any GPL product then bolt on a closed source MIT blob, and entrench you the way every sh*tty thing they have ever done.

    Disclosure: 10 years *almost* M$ free (those f*ckers got rent for the crappy exfat on android, but I couldn't avoid that without paying the fruity tax).

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  • (Score: 2) by bitstream on Friday March 11 2016, @02:54PM

    by bitstream (6144) on Friday March 11 2016, @02:54PM (#317033) Journal

    You could pay the Replicant tax.. oh wait ;)