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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 tangomargarine on Friday March 11 2016, @09:12PM

    by tangomargarine (667) on Friday March 11 2016, @09:12PM (#317166)

    Ah crap. Copied the wrong URL.

    http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/11/13/open_sourcing_java_five_year_anniversary/ [theregister.co.uk]

    (And yeah I'm aware the article is from 2011.)

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  • (Score: 1) by nitehawk214 on Monday March 14 2016, @05:55PM

    by nitehawk214 (1304) on Monday March 14 2016, @05:55PM (#318107)

    I agree with you. I think the problem is thinking in this binary "open source vs closed source" terms. Java's model is somewhere in the middle.

    And I am perfectly fine with this. Having the backing of big companies keeps it at least somewhat closed, while also giving it enough market push to be a major force. It might not be very fast on updates, but it isn't abandonware either. What is the appropriate amount of "openness" depends on the project. I think this suits Java perfectly.

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