... and I'm going to belabor this, because I think it's important.
There's a fair bit of excitement around the new, exciting, open source friendly Microsoft with built-in Linux kernel emulation, an embrace of git and a huge release of open source tools...
Honestly though, I'm not buying it, the issue I've had with Microsoft over the years doesn't just stem from the shitty software or aggressive business practices... it's the deep rooted culture of mediocrity it promotes.
People who belong to that church believe it's ok to build shitty software because doing it right is too hard. Why root-cause an issue when you can just script reboots? It's too hard anyway, we're at "Microsoft scale."
The rise of the internet and the companies that grew around it showed us that if you have a culture of giving a shit, you can build really complex things "at scale" that aren't complete shit.
I worry that the new Microsoft will be a different kind of trojan horse for the OSS world. It won't be "embrace, extend, extinguish" it will be more like a social media psyops campaign that beats it into everyone's heads that now we're at "Microsoft scale" it's ok for everything to "kinda suck", and if we're not careful... everything will.
There's a fair bit of excitement around the new, exciting, open source friendly Microsoft with built-in Linux kernel emulation, an embrace of git and a huge release of open source tools...
Honestly though, I'm not buying it, the issue I've had with Microsoft over the years doesn't just stem from the shitty software or aggressive business practices... it's the deep rooted culture of mediocrity it promotes.
People who belong to that church believe it's ok to build shitty software because doing it right is too hard. Why root-cause an issue when you can just script reboots? It's too hard anyway, we're at "Microsoft scale."
The rise of the internet and the companies that grew around it showed us that if you have a culture of giving a shit, you can build really complex things "at scale" that aren't complete shit.
I worry that the new Microsoft will be a different kind of trojan horse for the OSS world. It won't be "embrace, extend, extinguish" it will be more like a social media psyops campaign that beats it into everyone's heads that now we're at "Microsoft scale" it's ok for everything to "kinda suck", and if we're not careful... everything will.