The problem Microsoft is trying to address here is the countless number of paid VLC media players/Libreoffices/GIMPs on the store that don’t break their rules, but are also not run by the respective foundation.
Obviously this is a totally wrong approach, but that’s the actual issue being addressed by Redmond.
or at least, thats the cover they’re using to conceal their interests.
pretty difficult to believe a company with their resources (let alone history) cares so deeply about that issue, yet falls so unbelievably short of a correct approach.
all the while perfectly aligning with their interests, and the push to decouple opensource from stepping on commercial toes.
People actually use their app store?
Microsoft even once claimed that anyone who developed FOSS under copyleft was against the American Way
Lol. Cool.
There couldn’t be a better time for switching to Linux.
It’s time to abandon Windows.
Always has been.
What an idiocy, OpenSource soft or services is not necessarily free to use, it does not matter if it serves for crowdfunding for charity or because it has costs because it needs an infra structure for its operation. For example Proton VPN is OpenSource, but only freemium with a paid pro version, since server cost money. Will it be banned from the M$ store because of this? Anyway I don’t know anyone who uses Windows and uses the store to get software, where even M$ has the effrontery to charge for Libre Office (€9.50). Edit: They have removed it from the store and replaced it with different others, proprietary soft, with its Office 365 and WPS Office in the first place.
