<story><title>Microsoft acquires Github</title><url>https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2018/06/04/microsoft-github-empowering-developers/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>crazygringo</author><text>Corporations aren&amp;#x27;t people.&lt;p&gt;If you change the leadership and change employee incentives, it might as well be a different company.&lt;p&gt;Sure there&amp;#x27;s cultural inertia... but incentives trump culture every time.</text></item><item><author>codetrotter</author><text>&amp;gt; And Microsoft is all-in on open source. We have been on a journey with open source, and today we are active in the open source ecosystem, we contribute to open source projects, and some of our most vibrant developer tools and frameworks are open source. When it comes to our commitment to open source, judge us by the actions we have taken in the recent past, our actions today, and in the future.&lt;p&gt;It’s a fair point but I still cannot read this without thinking of someone saying “yeah I did some things in the past but I’ve totally changed I promise. Look, for the whole past week I’ve been really nice to people haven’t I?”</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pavel_lishin</author><text>&amp;gt; &lt;i&gt;If you change the leadership and change employee incentives, it might as well be a different company.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;Exactly. Which is why the idea of &amp;quot;trusting&amp;quot; a corporation, or treating them like you would a human being on any level, is ludicrous. They&amp;#x27;re a plane crash and a stock dip from becoming a totally different entity.</text></comment>
<story><title>Microsoft acquires Github</title><url>https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2018/06/04/microsoft-github-empowering-developers/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>crazygringo</author><text>Corporations aren&amp;#x27;t people.&lt;p&gt;If you change the leadership and change employee incentives, it might as well be a different company.&lt;p&gt;Sure there&amp;#x27;s cultural inertia... but incentives trump culture every time.</text></item><item><author>codetrotter</author><text>&amp;gt; And Microsoft is all-in on open source. We have been on a journey with open source, and today we are active in the open source ecosystem, we contribute to open source projects, and some of our most vibrant developer tools and frameworks are open source. When it comes to our commitment to open source, judge us by the actions we have taken in the recent past, our actions today, and in the future.&lt;p&gt;It’s a fair point but I still cannot read this without thinking of someone saying “yeah I did some things in the past but I’ve totally changed I promise. Look, for the whole past week I’ve been really nice to people haven’t I?”</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ekianjo</author><text>But incentives are still very much in the hand of shareholders who have been rewarding and continue to reward Microsoft&amp;#x27;s predatory stance on the market (including its continuous abuse of patents against open-source projects like Android and Linux).&lt;p&gt;So yeah, they are &amp;quot;all in on Open source&amp;quot;, right.</text></comment>