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Posts like this remind me of the quote in N.N.Taleb's Antifragile book, The mind fights yesterday's war, but the body fights tomorrow's war (in the context of biological systems under stress).

Some minds here are fighting a decade old war and no good deed goes unpunished in HN comments.

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IMO you don't get to shed decades worth of reputation because you made a few good moves in the open source world.

For me at least, such a company would have to spend as much or more time pushing this new open idea than they did pushing the Embrace Extend Extinguish model.

Some people are more forgiving than me but I agree with the parents skepticism about how the openness seems to largely be in areas where they already lost the lockin wars.

Thats possible.

But tales like Aesop's fable of The Scorpion and the Frog have reverberated with humanity since prehistoric times for a reason, too.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Scorpion_and_the_Frog

Look they released their Javascript engine with no JIT compiler for Linux. It's the same Microsoft because they are in it for money and dominance. A leopard can't change its spots. Microsoft will always be the same, no matter what they say. They are simply changing themselves to be more like Google because they know their old strategy does not work in the new world.

If anything it's Microsoft which is fighting yesterday's war with today's strategy.

To be fair we don't know that they won't port the JIT over eventually. I can't imagine it's a high priority.

And that's all you have to do, just keep saying we're working on it, and turn to the next question. All ways of getting people to use your operating system and your eco-system while keeping the rhetoric of we're open now. And they can't be it's not in their nature. They have a whole lot of business interests which will keep them the same old, same old.

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