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Title    Eclipse Foundation Gains New Member: Microsoft
Date    Friday March 11 2016, @06:56AM
Author    martyb
Topic   
from the getting-together? dept.
https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=16/03/10/1953246

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:

[Continues.]

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.

Original Submission #1
Original Submission #2

Links
  1. "butthurt" - https://soylentnews.org/~butthurt/
  2. "a solar eclipse" - https://www.timeanddate.com/eclipse/in/micronesia/kolonia
  3. "Microsoft Corp." - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft
  4. "Eclipse Foundation" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eclipse_Foundation
  5. "Team Foundation Server" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Team_Foundation_Server
  6. "available in source form" - https://github.com/Microsoft/team-explorer-everywhere
  7. " Ars Technica " - http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/03/microsoft-joins-the-eclipse-foundation-open-sources-some-of-its-plugins/
  8. " Tech Crunch " - http://techcrunch.com/2016/03/08/microsoft-joins-the-open-source-eclipse-foundation/
  9. " The Register " - http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/03/08/microsoft_joins_eclipse_foundation/
  10. " Infoworld " - http://www.infoworld.com/article/3041841/application-development/microsoft-finally-joins-open-source-eclipse-foundation.html
  11. " ZDNet " - http://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-takes-another-step-toward-eclipse-of-proprietary-software/
  12. " Network World " - http://www.networkworld.com/article/3041426/open-source-tools/open-source-happy-microsoft-joins-eclipse-foundation.html
  13. " The Inquirer " - http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/2450270/microsoft-becomes-latest-member-of-the-eclipse-foundation
  14. " CIO " - http://www.cio.com/article/3041859/open-source-tools/microsoft-joins-the-eclipse-foundation-open-sources-team-explorer-everywhere.html
  15. " Fortune " - http://fortune.com/tag/eclipse-foundation/
  16. " WinBeta " - http://www.winbeta.org/news/microsoft-announces-joining-open-source-eclipse-foundation
  17. "-- OriginalOwner_" - http://tinyurl.com/OriginalOwner
  18. "reports" - http://techrights.org/2016/03/08/microsoft-eee-eclipse/#post-90225
  19. "latest "loves Linux" nonsense" - http://techrights.org/2016/03/08/microsoft-layoffs-and-sql-server/#post-90185
  20. "1" - http://mspoweruser.com/microsoft-joining-eclipse-foundation-solutions-member/#post-203758
  21. "2" - http://www.cio.com/article/3041859/open-source-tools/microsoft-joins-the-eclipse-foundation-open-sources-team-explorer-everywhere.html
  22. "3" - http://techcrunch.com/2016/03/08/microsoft-joins-the-open-source-eclipse-foundation/#social-share
  23. "Eclipse is actually against software patents" - http://techrights.org/2011/02/10/mike-milinkovich-on-swpats/#post-45651
  24. "uses against Linux even this week" - http://techrights.org/2016/03/08/microsoft-extorting-wistron/#post-90213
  25. "Original Submission #1" - https://soylentnews.org/submit.pl?op=viewsub&subid=12617
  26. "Original Submission #2" - https://soylentnews.org/submit.pl?op=viewsub&subid=12623
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