Microsoft loves Linux — a little too much?
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May 19, 2020: Microsoft announces a lot of Linux related stuff, and Maui. Trouble is: Maui is already the name of a Linux distribution and…
  • randomwords@midwest.social
    161·
    1 year ago

    Nothing Microsoft ever does should be trusted or relied upon. They are a bad actor who always operates in bad faith and should be treated as such.

  • AgreeableLandscape
    131·
    5 years ago

    When someone says that Microsoft is NOT an ally to free software on /r/opensource, they’re almost ALWAYS downvoted. Then their prized company pulls this shit.

  • klangcola@reddthat.com
    7·
    1 year ago

    Op article is from 2020.

    This Microsoft article https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/maui/what-is-maui is dated 30 January 2023 and still uses the MAUI brand name, so Microsoft have not fixed their mistake

    This should be a slam dunk case of copyright infringement for the original Maui project. Isn’t this the sort of thing EFF (EFFE?) should be fighting in the courts on behalf of small open source projects?

    • klangcola@reddthat.com
      4·
      1 year ago

      From the article (from original Maui’s response):

      a UI framework that as of today is still the first result in Google when searching for the term “Maui UI framework” but that due to the might of GitHub (another Microsoft subsidiary) and Microsoft own website (specifically, their blog) SEO that will change over time.

      Exactly this has happened. On both Google and DuckDuckGo (partially Bing?) all the top results are Microsoft Maui, you have to scroll down for original Maui

    • nukul4r@feddit.de
      14·
      1 year ago

      This was posted three years ago. My guess is that the recent replies made it show up in “hot” again. I see a lot of old posts with new comments recently.

    • AgreeableLandscape
      3·
      5 years ago

      This is LITERALLY their Embrace Extend Extinguish model. WSL (so in a way, Linux), GitHub, NPM, probably way more that I can’t think of right now will probably all suffer the same fate. They likely never changed their view on open source (remember when Steve Ballmer said that the GPL/Linux is horrible?) despite how many times they say they’ve changed it.

    • fluffel
      3·
      5 years ago

      Why not? They’re already owning npm, don’t they?

  • k_o_t
    2·
    5 years ago

    in other news: water is wet