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November 13, 2014

The Battleship Moves

Filed under: Microsoft,Open Source — Patrick Durusau @ 2:45 pm

A milestone moment for Microsoft: .NET is now an open-source project by Jonathan Vanian.

During the acrimonious debate about OOXML, a friend said that Microsoft was like a very large battleship, it could turn, but movement wasn’t ever sudden.

From what I read in Jonathan’s post, MS is in the process of making yet another turn, this time to make .NET an open source project.

A move that gives credence to the proposition that being open source isn’t inconsistent with being a commercial enterprise and a profitable one.

But just as important is commercial open source software as a bulwark against government surveillance. Consumers will have the choice of buying binary and possibly government surveillance infected software or they can use open source and the services of traditional vendors such as MS, IBM, HP, etc. to compile specific software packages for their use.

Opening up such a large package isn’t an overnight lark so I encourage everyone to be patient as MS eases .NET into the waters of open source. Continued good experiences with an open source .NET will further the open source agenda at Microsoft.

The more open source software in use, the fewer dark places for government surveillance to hide.

Fewer dark places for government surveillance to hide.” Yet another benefit from open source software!

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