Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2016 11:44:07 +0000 From: Matthew Seaman <matthew@FreeBSD.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Microsoft announced it is joining The Linux Foundation? Message-ID: <747a871c-4d34-7c06-0c04-4650f31bb6ce@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20161118113224.20964d7d.freebsd@edvax.de> References: <CAN7_dzdQ9yQNdm5_FbqqkQdJPYXhcYzFMBiCZsPbDiUge7j%2Bmw@mail.gmail.com> <20161118113224.20964d7d.freebsd@edvax.de>
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This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 4880 and 3156) --lh7PDnIq42eBWcG6gXSLbWuiHrt5OKueM Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="4fVlqoNOtQLqOAAVgqKWgMKO8wcFL5rcT"; protected-headers="v1" From: Matthew Seaman <matthew@FreeBSD.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <747a871c-4d34-7c06-0c04-4650f31bb6ce@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: Microsoft announced it is joining The Linux Foundation? References: <CAN7_dzdQ9yQNdm5_FbqqkQdJPYXhcYzFMBiCZsPbDiUge7j+mw@mail.gmail.com> <20161118113224.20964d7d.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <20161118113224.20964d7d.freebsd@edvax.de> --4fVlqoNOtQLqOAAVgqKWgMKO8wcFL5rcT Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 2016/11/18 10:32, Polytropon wrote: > On Thu, 17 Nov 2016 20:35:36 -0300, SOUL_OF_ROOT 55 wrote: >> Can this be? Microsoft announced it is joining The Linux Foundation? >=20 > They are prividing a certain sum of money, and that amount > makes them a platinum member, not more, not less. Basically > anoyone who donates $500,000 annually can be a platinum member > of The Linux Foundation. In case of MICROS~1, this is probably > an attempt to re-gain "developers' share", a facet of "the > new MICROS~1" thathopes people forget security nightmares, > forced updates, patent extortion and vendor lock-in... but > who really knows what happens inside MICROS~1... ;-) Actually, Microsoft's motivation here is Microsoft Azure -- they've spend a huge amount of money on datacentres and servers and all the other infrastructure required for setting up a global cloud presence, and now they are very keen to encourage lots of people to use it (and pay them money for the privilege, of course.) Since their principle target market is the Enterprise, and they aim to be able to migrate just about any Enterprise computing system from dedicated hardware to their cloud, that means they need to support just about all of the different OSes that a variety of different Enterprise setups could be using. So they now support a lot of OpenSource OSes. Which includes both FreeBSD 10.x and pfsense by the way -- as well as all the usual Linux suspects. Oh, and when I say 'support' that means that you can phone up Microsoft about your FreeBSD or pfsense related problems on your Azure VMs, and Microsoft are contractually obliged to help you out. They did a presentation about all this at the last BSDCan. Plus there are two FreeBSD src committers who work for Microsoft, and who are doing a lot of work making sure the Hyper-V drivers etc. are all working and performant. There have been reports of a FreeBSD VM on azure achieving 37 Gb/s on 40 Gb/s hardware for instance. Microsoft in its aspect as the global cloud computing company is really quite different from Microsoft in its aspect as the PC desktop operating system company. Cheers, Matthew --4fVlqoNOtQLqOAAVgqKWgMKO8wcFL5rcT-- --lh7PDnIq42eBWcG6gXSLbWuiHrt5OKueM Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Comment: GPGTools - https://gpgtools.org iQJ8BAEBCgBmBQJYLumPXxSAAAAAAC4AKGlzc3Vlci1mcHJAbm90YXRpb25zLm9w ZW5wZ3AuZmlmdGhob3JzZW1hbi5uZXQxOUYxNTRFQ0JGMTEyRTUwNTQ0RTNGMzAw MDUxM0YxMEUwQTlFNEU3AAoJEABRPxDgqeTnZlMP/0QUwGYcCNvgIf/6nt+reHRM FClN3dOW4MVX66XnQ/wJXBvHFds+rmGadSPRCBFjus0SuttBt3mdF8CGOChQ1Vzp +/sGWrkRblDQa7gOuRwynTiAEI+GDFik7hZoC5OTkHCdTYLsxBlCAYe7dIWLYYeE rNYmdPf9v4zlEbUnCN7JhvuIbdWCTwt93fQxpHn4ZvA4JdYIyILE847n9A2MdahW CekaH3EBdp3SH24m0E74dg8foXPlDjm2Mn4BdqQLeEKrvLmwbIHJjRzYFJ3qeyTu BKJ2ol4T8pWS8aZ9J58zafGmhne0x/CqohUbloKbw6b8o905ASGAKW3gkX7s1YU2 yrbTn7dLrKWOKQvSj4Z5jMYK4kXwXoRTtsvhlKfUtuG1rYcje2fdbhFplxMLvlFH /hVdkYt1P0Gk5rIwDaU/+kp7dWa0wlvKfOvsyNXSk4sfq0pzkbHLTFi37BhslELM Ad4Ntn63Wk6OTq5Xko+h9uRr4myFw6sPuACJKBbSaB+f/ieyKj+bCqzrZvbmsxCM 08PyfOyxb3VRWHpExurHNRq6A+Cc3y16Kad923YzlBuX3yPLtosqX8xiOwR0rW5T K0gcgdKnuxPV5Q6rhw11KxpUpdvgN4RZ0DwXQ1pXP24AOLlt9F5gWKUY/JOgUIf/ +mjcqODjxcTou9UQjBXa =2MXo -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --lh7PDnIq42eBWcG6gXSLbWuiHrt5OKueM--
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