Microsoft's dear with opened upward rootage community is embracing equally fourth dimension passes. At its offset Connect number inwards 2013, the fellowship launched Visual Studio 2013. H5N1 yr later, Microsoft opened upward sourced .NET, in addition to final year, it opened upward sourced the Visual Studio Code Editor, equally well.
Not only that, Microsoft partnered with Canonical to convey Ubuntu on Windows 10, worked with FreeBSD to prepare a Virtual Machine image for its Azure cloud, in addition to chosen Ubuntu equally the OS for its Cloud-based Big Data services.
And the big intelligence for this yr is…
At its 2016 Connect developer number inwards New York today, Microsoft announced that the fellowship is joining the Linux Foundation equally a Platinum fellow member – the highest marker of membership, which costs $500,000 annually.
Besides this, Microsoft too announced that tech giant Google has too joined on with the independent .NET Foundation.
The Linux Foundation is a nonprofit arrangement that oversees the evolution of the real pop costless operating scheme Linux, amongst advances opened upward applied scientific discipline evolution equally good equally commercial adoption.
Microsoft has already contributed to a number of its opened upward rootage projects, including Node.js Foundation, Open Container Initiative, OpenDaylight, R Consortium, in addition to Open API Initiative.
However, today's statement from Microsoft withal comes equally a surprise to many, equally Former Microsoft Chief Steve Ballmer 1 time said, "Linux is a cancer," in an interview with the Chicago Sun-Times.
Here's what Microsoft said inwards its latest statement for joining the Linux Foundation:
"As business office of its endeavor to function to a greater extent than closely with the opened upward rootage community, Microsoft on Midweek announced it has joined the Linux Foundation equally a Platinum Member. Microsoft's membership inwards the Linux Foundation volition create goodness customers through increased collaboration in addition to conception amid a various ecosystem."
Microsoft believes its latest deed volition create goodness its customers through increased collaboration in addition to innovation.
Jim Zemlin, executive manager of The Linux Foundation, too acknowledged the company's deed to function to a greater extent than closely with the open-source community, saying:
"By becoming a Linux Foundation Platinum member, Microsoft is amend able to collaborate with the opened upward rootage community to deliver transformative mobile in addition to cloud experiences to to a greater extent than people. Microsoft has been a commutation contributor to many projects, in addition to nosotros run into the fellowship intensifying its interest in addition to commitment to opened upward development."
Other Linux Foundation Platinum members include Cisco, Huawei, IBM, Intel, Oracle, Qualcomm, Samsung, Fujitsu, HPE, in addition to NEC. While Gold sponsors include Google, Facebook in addition to to a greater extent than than a dozen other prominent opened upward rootage users.
