Microsoft Becomes Sponsor of Open Source Initiative
This is all fine and good. I hope their efforts are sincere. All money and support to free software is most likely good.<p>However, I&#x27;ve been part of the open source community for 25 years, and I remember the brutal marketing against the &quot;cancer&quot; of open source.<p>It will take a lot to convince me that there is not some underlying goal here that is not beneficial to free software.<p>How much has Microsoft really changed? I have windows on my gaming PC, and every day i have to ALT+F4 a stupid message to &quot;review my privacy settings&quot;. There is no option for full privacy so i keep ALT+F4&#x27;ing the message and block all the telemetry stuff in my openbsd firewall.<p>I have a powershell script called deleteapps that removes all the apps that is reinstalled everytime there is an update. It also appears to be impossible to uninstall the xbox app. Onedrive keeps turning on even if I choose that I do not want to sync during the installation, set the option in onedrive to not start at launch.<p>Why fight the user to this level?
Have they really turned &quot;good&quot;?