Why Open Source Software is Moving to GitLab After Microsoft-GitHub Deal

Posted by brideoflinux on Jun 4, 2018 11:50 PM EDT
ITPro Today; By Christine Hall
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The problem with Microsoft is the history it shares with Linux and open source. While it's true that today's Microsoft "is not your father’s Microsoft," and that under CEO Satya Nadella Microsoft has developed plenty of open source cred, there are many open source advocates who still remember the days when Microsoft was decrying open source as a "cancer" and "communist" and don't trust the company's motives. They remember when open source absolutely couldn't get traction because of the Kool Aid Microsoft was selling.

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