<story><title>Microsoft Releases a Linux Version of the ProcDump Sysinternals Tool</title><url>https://github.com/Microsoft/ProcDump-for-Linux</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>xtrapolate</author><text>This thread is yet another example of &amp;quot;you can&amp;#x27;t please all the people all of the time&amp;quot;. This tool is a useful addition to the Linux toolbox, made freely available by Microsoft, in what would be yet another step towards embracing and supporting OSS - yet for many in this thread, that&amp;#x27;s just not good enough.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>zgramana</author><text>Microsoft skeptics fail to realize that most of the mid- and upper-level executives increasingly spent their entire career using, creating, and contributing to F&amp;#x2F;OSS software. Many of them were involved with early MSFT OSS efforts back in 2008-2010, and many came from deep Linux&amp;#x2F;OSS community via acquisition (Nat Friedman). Hell, the creator of GNOME, Miguel de Icaza, someone who bears the scars of the Microsoft War on OSS, now resides happily at Microsoft now.&lt;p&gt;For whatever faults MSFT has today, any sort of antipathy or guile towards OSS or Linux is not one among them. Credit where credit is due. Too many are stuck reliving past glories.&lt;p&gt;If you want an &lt;i&gt;actual&lt;/i&gt; OSS bogeyman, you need only direct your attention to Oracle. Too many transferred their goodwill towards Sun to a company has, among other things, tried to claim Java’s APIs as their own intellectual property. That’s a company that still merits this kind of hand-wringing.</text></comment>
<story><title>Microsoft Releases a Linux Version of the ProcDump Sysinternals Tool</title><url>https://github.com/Microsoft/ProcDump-for-Linux</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>xtrapolate</author><text>This thread is yet another example of &amp;quot;you can&amp;#x27;t please all the people all of the time&amp;quot;. This tool is a useful addition to the Linux toolbox, made freely available by Microsoft, in what would be yet another step towards embracing and supporting OSS - yet for many in this thread, that&amp;#x27;s just not good enough.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>simias</author><text>People who remember the Microsoft from the 90&amp;#x27;s and early 00&amp;#x27;s are justifiably wary of them &amp;quot;embracing&amp;quot; things they like. When we used that word it was generally followed by two others, none of which was &amp;quot;supporting&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;And it&amp;#x27;s not like present day Microsoft is without issues. As a user as far as I&amp;#x27;m concerned every new version of Windows is worst that the last for instance. Ads everywhere, dark patterns in the UI etc... There are reasons to be cautious when we see them setting foot in FLOSS world, there&amp;#x27;s history here and it&amp;#x27;s not like MS suddenly turned into a non-profit open-source advocacy organization.</text></comment>