[Cialug] Microsoft announced it is joining The Linux Foundation (fwd)

[David Champion]

Wait... it's not April 1st, is it?

MS has come a long way in accepting and now supporting Linux, from back
when they used to actively spread FUD about it.

-dc

On Wed, Nov 16, 2016 at 5:44 PM, Scott Yates <Scott at yatesframe.com> wrote:

> Also, Google is joining the .NET foundation and we have an interesting*
> political situation.
>
> Strange days indeed!
>
> * isn't there an old curse that goes something like "May you live in
> interesting times"
>
> On Wed, Nov 16, 2016 at 5:27 PM, L. V. Lammert <lvl at omnitec.net> wrote:
>
> >
> > At its Connect(); 2016 developer event in New York City today, Microsoft
> > announced it is joining The Linux Foundation. And the company isn’t
> joining
> > just to say it did: Microsoft is joining at the Platinum level, the
> highest
> > level of membership, which costs $500,000 annually. John Gossman,
> architect
> > on the Microsoft Azure team, will sit on the foundation’s Board of
> > Directors and help underwrite projects.
> >
> > Can this be?  Microsoft announced it is joining The Linux Foundation
> >
> >
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