Linux Fest Northwest, which is a yearly conference in Washington state, has
grown a lot over the years. Not only in growth of attendees, but also
corporate sponsors. This year, one of the biggest sponsors and presence there
is Microsoft, which is giving off the impression that they heart Linux and
they are big supporters of open source software.
We all it is a business decision and a business decision alone to get Linux
users to like them better and use their .NET platform on Linux. They have
been releasing source code for parts of their .NET stack, but as we all know,
they aren't releasing ALL of it and are very selective in what is open and
not. They are keeping their most important code locked down as non-free
software to keep vendor lock-in to their platform for developers and/or
corporate users.
Here's a video where they interview someone at Microsoft during the fest:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mWpzbBHDlU8&t=24m13s
Thoughts? I'd be curious to see what jxself has to say about it since he
lives in the Seattle, WA area and is well aware of the influence that
Microsoft continues to have in that area.
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