<story><title>Chris, Nat and Satya&apos;s Calldeck Regarding Microsoft and GitHub</title><url>https://view.officeapps.live.com/op/view.aspx?src=https://c.s-microsoft.com/en-us/CMSFiles/calldeck.pptx?version=f3eef72b-35d3-95b2-4fda-73a47f805c7f</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ekianjo</author><text>&amp;gt; Slide 10: Microsoft &amp;lt;hearts&amp;gt; Open Source.&lt;p&gt;you do realize that&amp;#x27;s just PR talk right? Most of their money-making products and services are far from being open source, so let&amp;#x27;s tone down the grandiloquent claims a little.</text></item><item><author>ckastner</author><text>Slide 10: Microsoft &amp;lt;hearts&amp;gt; Open Source.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s really amazing how much Microsoft has changed (to the positive) since Ballmer stepped down as CEO.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sandGorgon</author><text>Microsoft is the largest contributor to open source on Github already...much higher than even Google.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;medium.freecodecamp.org&amp;#x2F;the-top-contributors-to-github-2017-be98ab854e87&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;medium.freecodecamp.org&amp;#x2F;the-top-contributors-to-gith...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>Chris, Nat and Satya&apos;s Calldeck Regarding Microsoft and GitHub</title><url>https://view.officeapps.live.com/op/view.aspx?src=https://c.s-microsoft.com/en-us/CMSFiles/calldeck.pptx?version=f3eef72b-35d3-95b2-4fda-73a47f805c7f</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ekianjo</author><text>&amp;gt; Slide 10: Microsoft &amp;lt;hearts&amp;gt; Open Source.&lt;p&gt;you do realize that&amp;#x27;s just PR talk right? Most of their money-making products and services are far from being open source, so let&amp;#x27;s tone down the grandiloquent claims a little.</text></item><item><author>ckastner</author><text>Slide 10: Microsoft &amp;lt;hearts&amp;gt; Open Source.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s really amazing how much Microsoft has changed (to the positive) since Ballmer stepped down as CEO.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ckastner</author><text>The point I was trying to make was that there was a time, not too long ago, when Microsoft was &lt;i&gt;actively hostile&lt;/i&gt; towards open source (and &lt;i&gt;all&lt;/i&gt; of their money-making products where closed source).&lt;p&gt;As to your point, it is possible for an entity to favor and support open source, even without the entity itself following this policy. These issues aren&amp;#x27;t one-dimensional.</text></comment>