Gregory's ServerNo #LinuxFoundation, not "rebel", but "evil 800 pound gorilla suing the life out of projects left and right"
Don't whitewash history
#ossummit #opensource #Microsoft
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Jon A. Cruz
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Jon A. Cruz
@doctormo I know, right? At the time I was *literally* part of the "Rebel Alliance" going up against Microsoft's evil Empire. (For those not old-timey nerds that was Netscape, Sun, and AOL) 
Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:
@joncruz Also "pioneer" after the movement has been a thing for 40+ years, plus they destroyed Netscape on the strictly open-source side of things…
 
Jeff "never puts away anything, especially oven mitts" Cliff, Bringer of Nightmares 🦝🐙 🇱🇧🧯 🇨🇦
@joncruz linux foundation is a microsoft front at this point so of course they would pat themselves on the back
 
Drew DeVault
@joncruz same Linux Foundation whose endorsement of Valkey is supposedly so important, by the way
Jon A. Cruz
@drewdevault in this case I'd actually think it is... Since MS resells Redis... Reminds me of back in the day when Mosaic thought they were so smart for getting a % of every unit sold deal from MS. Then MS gave IE away for free, and x% of $0.00 was... ? Hmm... and is Azure still Windows only these days??? IMHO they do like to be in control, but they like $ a bit more |
@joncruz
"Rebel". JFC, they make it sound like Microsoft was the plucky robin hood.
"How did we go from evil empire shouting about software cancer, to evil empire in a cuddly sweater with the embroidered words 'yay-open-source' in large friendly letters" - There, fixed it for you.