Does Microsoft become an open source company?
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We were in the middle of 2001 and the CEO of Microsoft (at that time), Steve Ballmer, made one of the most controversial statements when he was with the company: "Linux is cancer" . This statement fell like a slap in the face of the entire Linux and free software community, earning eternal hatred. About 15 years later , Microsoft's policies have changed, have mutated, those responsible are others, the CEO is no longer Ballmer, it is Nadella, and the concepts of free software (Open Source) are more flexible.
Microsoft towards Open Source and Linux support
The answer to whether Microsoft became an Open Source company is in the facts. In 2014 Microsoft made a milestone, the .NET platform became Open Source and reached Linux and Mac OS. Right now the.NET platform is one of the most used in application development and this movement had already surprised at the time.
During the year 2015 Microsoft made a puzzling movement again, the Visual Studio compilation platform switched to the Open Source model.
Earlier this year Microsoft was surprising again when its Javascript engine used in Internet Explorer and Microsoft Edge, Chakra, also became Open Source and incorporated support for WebM, VP9 and Opus in its browser.
Microsoft created its own FreeBSD for Azure
We can not fail to mention the support of Ubuntu Bash in Windows 10 and the move, at the end of last year, when Microsoft reached an agreement with Red Hat to offer Red Hat Enterprise Linux as a preferred option within Azure.
In the latest information we have about this transformation to the Open Source model, we learn that Microsoft created its own FreeBSD for Azure cloud platform. After Linux support comes Azure support for another free system, in this case Unix based and compatible with other GNU / Linux system binaries.
Although Microsoft's detractors will never recognize it, or perhaps they will, the change in policy since Satya Nadella came to the company has been to promote open source and they are surely not the latest news we have in this regard. What do you think? Is Microsoft an open source pro company?
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