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Comment by _bxg1 | Hacker News Reader

Impressively, they did actually merge the fix: https://github.com/microsoft/calculator/pull/553

It's good to see that Microsoft's "open source" programs aren't just code-dumps

For what it's worth, VS Code merges a tremendous number of PRs from the community, despite having a dedicated team: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/pulls?q=is%3Apr+is%3Aclo...

New MSFT really "gets" open source. It's an exciting time.

Sure- but that was conceived from the beginning as an open-source project, and isn't even truly "compiled"; it's designed to be hackable. Calc.exe is a core Windows utility, and was open-sourced after the fact.

Chakra was a many years old code base that was open sourced a few years ago, and we got a large number of pull requests from the community merged and shipped with windows and in chakracore releases. Object.fromEntries is one that immediately comes to mind but I know there were more. It happens across a lot of our projects!

Yeah, with the current CEO Microsoft got really active in the OSS Community. Still MS with Telemetry, like in the pre-compiled VSCode, but it's the right direction!

I've also been extremely pleased with their acceptance, communication, and turn around with bugs filed on the mssql-jdbc driver. Code is typically fixed and new versions published fairly regularly. I hope they keep it up.

https://github.com/microsoft/mssql-jdbc

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