Microsoft’s recent acquisition of GitHub has many of the site’s fans wondering, “Will we be able to have gay friends again?” What’s more, Bitbucket and Gitlab are all engaged in migration promotion. It seems that GitHub is just like xier marrying Huang Shiren when it is in Microsoft’s hands.
No wonder. It reminds me of the ’82… … Oh No, an old joke from 2000:
At a conference in 2000, Eric Raymond met Craig Mundie in a suit and tie. Eric asks him, “You work for Microsoft?” Craig Mundie: “Well, what did you do?”
Who is Craig Mundie?
Chief Researcher and Strategy Officer at Microsoft from 1992 to 2014, advising the CEO directly.
Why is Eric Raymond so cool?
The somebody else really has the capital of cow B, open source bound bible — “cathedral and bazaar” is this elder brother write.
Richard Stallman and Linus Torvalds, the father of Linux, are all “main gods” in the open source world.
What’s even funnier is that the guy was offered a job at Microsoft.
From: “Mike Walters (Search Wizards)” [email protected]
Eric,
I am a member of the Microsoft Central Sourcing Team. Microsoft is seeking world class engineers to help create products that help people and businesses throughout the world realize their full potential. Your name and contact info was brought to my attention as someone who could potentially be a contributor at Microsoft. I would love an opportunity to speak with you in detail about your interest in a career at Microsoft, along with your experience, background and qualifications.
Eric’s reply to Microsoft HR takes it to a new level of sharpness and probably makes Mike think it’s the worst thing he’s ever done while working at Microsoft.
To: “Mike Walters (Search Wizards)” [email protected]
From: [email protected]
I’d thank you for your offer of employment at Microsoft, except that it indicates that either you or your research team (or both) couldn’t get a clue if it were pounded into you with baseball bats. What were you going to do with the rest of your afternoon, offer jobs to Richard Stallman and Linus Torvalds? Or were you going to stick to something easier, like talking Pope Benedict into presiding at a Satanist orgy?
“What are you going to do for the rest of the afternoon? Richard Stallman and Linus Torvalds?”
Here comes the good part, typing on the blackboard and highlighting!
If you had bothered to do five seconds of background checking, you might have discovered that I am the guy who responded to Craig Mundie’s “Who are you?” with “I’m your worst nightmare”, and that I’ve in fact been something pretty close to your company’s worst nightmare since about 1997. You’ve maybe heard about this “open source” thing? You get one guess who wrote most of the theory and propaganda for it and talked IBM and Wall Street and the Fortune 500 into buying in. But don’t think I’m trying to destroy your company. Oh, no; I’d be just as determined to do in any other proprietary-software monopoly, and the community I helped found is well on its way to accomplishing that goal.
“I’m the guy who told Craig Mundie ‘I’m your worst Nightmare’… … Don’t think I’m going to destroy Microsoft. If I hate all proprietary software, the open source community I helped build will kill you.”
But I must thank you for dropping a good joke on my afternoon. On that hopefully not too far distant day thatI piss on Microsoft’s grave, I sincerely hope none of it will splash on you.
“When I pee on Microsoft’s tombstone in the near future, I hope it doesn’t spill on you.”
GitHub, the largest open-source project hosting site today, was acquired by Microsoft? Geeks and hackers are understandably uncomfortable.
That being said, it’s not what it used to be. Microsoft today is a different company than it was ten years ago, or even five years ago.
CEO Nadella seems to be the magic “blue pill”, Microsoft is back in the ascends, the stock is even more than Google. This and Microsoft attach importance to open source, embrace open source strategic adjustment is inseparable.
Windows Server 2016 support for Docker technology and the. Netcore open source project are two of Microsoft’s technological changes that I’ve seen and felt the most about. In particular, the. Netcore open source project has opened the door to the possibility of moving many older.NET projects from many enterprises to open technologies and microservices architectures.