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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: 1) by mrpacmanjel on Friday March 11 2016, @04:11PM

    by mrpacmanjel (362) on Friday March 11 2016, @04:11PM (#317056)

    "This isn't your Dad's Microsoft"

    Are you sure?

    http://news.softpedia.com/news/another-company-will-pay-microsoft-for-its-android-and-linux-tech-501561.shtml [softpedia.com]

    Microsoft are the new IBM - made some great software donations to the open source community but still trying clinging to dubious business practices.

  • (Score: 2) by Gaaark on Friday March 11 2016, @05:38PM

    by Gaaark (41) Subscriber Badge on Friday March 11 2016, @05:38PM (#317089) Journal

    Rakuten is obviously pleased with the fact that it managed to sign a licensing deal with Microsoft, while the Redmond-based tech giant can’t be anything but happy since it’ll make more money with its patents....

    Obviously pleased????
    "Yes sir, your Honour, we were obviously pleased that we reached an agreement to pay Guido and 'Broken nose' Barney protection money and that they didn't break our legs."

    ....Certainly, more companies will follow soon and it’s very clear that Microsoft hit the jackpot with these Android patents, as it’s making billions of dollars every year without doing anything.

    Yeah... Microsoft is doing nothing.... send the goons and watch the money roll in: why is no one going to the FBI (or whomever) over racketeering?????

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