alt Hacker NewsI mean, Microsoft started out by 'not making friends' in open source at the start. Then migrated to the embrace, extend, extinguish days. The current Microsoft is rather friendly towards open source compared to those days.
Typically services that try to gatekeep standard http don't get very far with the kind of people that like to modify their software.
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achompas • yesterday at 10:18 PM
This is both true and immaterial to Microsoft’s net profits.
Microsoft actually started with Xenix, which did not have a particularly hostile stance at the time.
They were the largest commercial Unix vendor of the early 1980s, and their largest platform was the TRS-80 Model 2.
The cutthroat hostility didn't start until the DEC people arrived.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenix