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Microsoft has reportedly acquired GitHub - The Verge
▻https://www.theverge.com/2018/6/3/17422752/microsoft-github-acquisition-rumors

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Microsoft has reportedly acquired GitHub, and could announce the deal as early as Monday. Bloomberg reports that the software giant has agreed to acquire GitHub, and that the company chose Microsoft partly because of CEO Satya Nadella. Business Insider first reported that Microsoft had been in talks with GitHub recently.

GitHub is a vast code repository that has become popular with developers and companies hosting their projects, documentation, and code. Apple, Amazon, Google, and many other big tech companies use GitHub. Microsoft is the top contributor to the site, and has more than 1,000 employees actively pushing code to repositories on GitHub. Microsoft even hosts its own original Windows File Manager source code on GitHub. The service was last valued at $2 billion back in 2015, but it’s not clear exactly how much Microsoft has paid to acquire GitHub.

MICROSOFT LOVES OPEN SOURCE NOW

Microsoft has been rapidly investing in open source technology since Satya Nadella took over the CEO role. Microsoft has open sourced PowerShell, Visual Studio Code, and the Microsoft Edge JavaScript engine. Microsoft also partnered with Canonical to bring Ubuntu to Windows 10, and acquired Xamarin to assist with mobile app development.

#Microsoft #GitHub #open_source #Internet

Microsoft Makes it Official : Becomes Sponsor of Open Source Initiative | Open Source Initiative
▻https://opensource.org/node/901

Ya-t-il quelqu’un ici qui se rappelle des « Halloween documents ». Même si c’est de la "récupération", le déplacement de Microsoft vers le libre (enfin, vers l’open source, ce qui est quand même bien plus limité) est la sanction d’une victoire : le libre est un moteur du développement de l’informatique, fut-il partagé (communs) ou commercial. A moins que ce ne soit le baiser du serpent...

The Open Source Initiative ® (OSI) the global non-profit dedicated to promoting and protecting open source software through education, collaboration, and infrastructure, announced today that Microsoft has joined the organization as a Premium Sponsor.

Microsoft’s history with the OSI dates back to 2005 with the submission of the Microsoft Community License, then again in August of 2007 with the submission of the Microsoft Permissive License. For many in the open source software community, it was Microsoft’s release of .NET in 2014 under an open source license that may fave first caught their attention. Microsoft has increasingly participated in open source projects and communities as users, contributors, and creators, and has released even more open source products like Visual Studio Code and Typescript.

The company is a leading contributor to open source software projects on GitHub (also an OSI Corporate Sponsor); brought Bash/Linux to Windows 10; expanded its support for Linux and open source workloads on Azure; worked with OSI Affiliate Member FreeBSD Foundation to support the operating system on Azure; joined OSI Affiliate Member Linux Foundation and many of its foundations and projects. In addition, Microsoft works with companies like Canonical, Red Hat, SUSE, and open source can now be found throughout Microsoft products.

#Microsoft #Logiciel_libre #Open_source

Canonical CEO Jane Silber Announces She’s Stepping Down
▻http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2017/04/jane-silber-canonical-ceo-steps-down

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Jane Silber is to step down as Canonical CEO, with Mark Shuttleworth taking her place. Silber revealed the news in a blog post, following speculation on her future role. This post, Canonical CEO Jane Silber Announces She’s Stepping Down, was written by Joey Sneddon and first appeared on OMG! Ubuntu!.

The Ubuntu Tablet Was Announced One Year Ago Today
▻http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2017/02/ubuntu-tablet-announced-one-year-ago-today

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The world’s first, official Ubuntu Tablet was announced to the world one year ago today. Yup, twelve months ago Linux fans were getting worked into a frenzy over the Bq Aquaris M10 Ubuntu Edition tablet, a device the marketing claims offered ‘everything you need from a PC in a tablet’, with Canonical CEO Jane Silber saying the device brought :“…everything you’ve come to […] This post, The Ubuntu Tablet Was Announced One Year Ago Today, was written by Joey Sneddon and first appeared on OMG! Ubuntu!.

Déjà #windows 10 était passé en me forçant la main sur le passage de la v8 à la v10.

Mais hier matin, windows me prévient élégamment d’une maj à jour de sécurité qui serait lancée dans un quart d’heure, me permettant de redémarrer maintenant. Je dis non, et là à l’heure dite, pouf windows s’éteint sans me prévenir pour installer la maj (pendant 3h !).

Mais le mieux, c’est qu’il a planté mon système du coup impossible de redémarrer sous windows.

Microsoft a réussi à dépasser mon inertie et ma procrastination. Du coup je retrouve avec joie GNU/Linux \o/

(finalement plutôt efficace cette maj de sécurité).

C’est fou comme l’expérience utilisateur s’est dégradée sous windows et plus généralement (genre les smartphones qui font des notifs pour nous proposer des applis dont on a rien à secouer)