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I really don't see the point of having another data server running on Linux, as it is developers are spoilt for choice. I am not a fan of anything Microsoft and don't like to see it raise its head on open source products like RaspberryPi and now its attack on open source software. I want to get away from this greedy monolithic destroyer of innovation not embrace it into the open source fold

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You also don't plan to touch Haskell, OCaml, async/await patterns, RX, given that they all have influence from Microsoft Research?

Interesting how you capitalise the word "Research" after Microsoft, you must be a fan

That's the name for that part of the organization:

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/

That's just pimping man

No, I am someone that is able to distinguish the cold harsh reality of the corporate world, and religious hate against companies.

Harsh reality of the corporate world sounds a bit self aggrandised, stop taking yourself so seriously :)

You offer a few examples of research developed my Microsoft but don't mention the destruction of an entire generation of innovation by deliberate barrier of entry by obfuscation and theft of intellectual property. The history of Microsoft is well known I don't need to recite what most people already know

I can provide examples of "destruction of an entire generation of innovation by deliberate barrier of entry by obfuscation", whatever that means, for almost any company in the IT landscape.

I don't know, should I start with Google, IBM, Oracle and Apple examples?

How much of that is a direct result of Microsoft setting the standard of bullying, stealing and legal threats to keep their monopoly and prevent small innovators disrupting?

Just like any other corporation starting with the ones I mentioned, money drives the world, not religious personification for and against companies.

What matters is now, not history. History is a bad predictor of future behavior (remember Google's "don't be evil"?)

I can't tell whether this comment is satire or not.

I assume you're anti-AJAX then? (XMLHttpRequest having originated in IE)

AJAX ruined the web, yeah.

That doesn't have any bearing on what I said, not everything Microsoft did was bad or useless, their policy to crush innovation was the problem

Quit living in the past.

Future without Microsoft would be ideal

I wouldn't call Microsoft an innovator in the browser either, you miss the point entirely and you should read up on the destruction of Netscape https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netscape

You're presuming I'm unaware of the history. I've been a professional developer since 1998.

> attack on open source software

What exactly is MS attacking?

Attack is probably too strong, obviously anyone has the right to use open software but if you look at the history of how Microsoft bullied vendors that supported Linux you would get a sense of what I mean

I see the rabid response I got proves my point, thanks for being part of the experiment

The Raspberry Pi isn't open source. Broadcom only releases their firmware as binaries.

I know, it is a concern, the hardware is as open and there is work afoot to release a completely open source pi, not sure how far they have got

No the hardware is not open, there are no released schematics or layouts, and you cannot buy the chips from Broadcom.

I'd be very surprised if Broadcom released the source code for their firmware. It would probably have to be a complete rewrite from reverse engineered specifications, like the original IBM PC BIOS was cloned. Except a lot more difficult as these firmwares are comparatively huge.

I agree, though I did see some interesting projects, I don't have time to get involved though

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