Comment on What happened to techbros from the 90s to now?

• motor_spirit@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I don’t have time to verify if the answer is in this link but it seems to be relevant

  en.m.wikipedia.org/…/Microsoft_and_open_source

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  • Agrivar@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    “Microsoft, a tech company historically known for its opposition to the open source software paradigm, turned to embrace the approach in the 2010s. From the 1970s through 2000s under CEOs Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer, Microsoft viewed the community creation and sharing of communal code, later to be known as free and open source software, as a threat to its business, and both executives spoke negatively against it.”

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    • homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Bill Gates’ primary quest was to destroy open source right from day 1. See “Hackers” by Steven Levy for more.

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• SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Just an example, in 2020, Microsoft bought npm, the Node Package Manager.

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  • False@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Definitely not relevant to the late 80s

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    • SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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      I’m not seeing you specify the late 80’s as your reference timeframe anywhere here.

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      • False@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        That’s when Microsoft built Windows, so I’m assuming that’s the period OP is referring to

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• homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  What open source was in Windows?

  You’ll never know, if they get their way.

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