[Battlemesh] massive moving from github to gitlab?

Henning Rogge hrogge at gmail.com
Tue Jun 5 10:37:35 CEST 2018


On Tue, Jun 5, 2018 at 10:33 AM Jonathan Morton <chromatix99 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > On 5 Jun, 2018, at 11:16 am, guifipedro <guifipedro at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Is Microsoft going to "Open source", or is trying to be destroy it from inside?
>
> It wouldn't be the first time.  "Embrace, Extend, Extinguish" is one of their favourite strategies.
>
> They did it to Java until Sun got an injunction against them, at which point C# surfaced as a direct replacement.  Java mostly survived that until the Oracle takeover.  C# is just M$ Java with slightly different syntax, and nearly all of Java's inherent faults intact.

To be fair, that was more than a decade ago.

> Arguably, they also did it to Nokia, though that probably wasn't their conscious intention (but spectacularly "successful" regardless).

Yes... who would have thought that nothing good happens if the two
contenders for "last place at the post IPhone smartphone market" would
join forces... ;)

Henning



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