If Microsoft truly loves open source, they'd open source #github upon acquisition.
@klaatu Haha, now I see you beat me to it by a day.
Someone elsewhere was pointing out the code is probably not that big a deal, it's really just the network effects.
I didn't have the heart to go all "but it's the principle" on 'em.
Plus, you know, if the code is crap, then that's something to work on, right?
@deejoe It's weird to me that people saying "oh Microsoft is OK now, they really do earnestly love open source" give Microsoft a free pass when it comes to following through on opening up source code.
Do we need to define a middle ground here?
Fuzzy source: for when you like open source, but not enough to share your own.
@klaatu @deejoe I also think it is useless trying to personify a company as large as microsoft. A company that astronomically large is structurally incapable of doing anything other than maximizing its profits, no matter the ethical implications,. Microsoft isn't for or against open source. Open source is just a pawn in the game. Sometimes it makes them money to support it, other times it makes sense to strangle it.