> And today I found out about "Microsoft Open Technologies, Inc." I've never heard of that group before!
Open Tech is the MS group that is trying to push open source as a culture both inside Microsoft and also among traditional .NET developers. They're the reason you can run Node on Azure, can reliably run Redis on Windows, and they're the ones leading the drive on ASP.NET vNext, the next version of ASP.NET.
It makes it a really exciting time to be a .NET dev.
This "new leaf" Microsoft is showing is quite refreshing. I hope they continue to integrate themselves as part of the FOSS community while reducing their fights.
> And today I found out about "Microsoft Open Technologies, Inc." I've never heard of that group before!
I was about to say that the purpose of the separation is probably to allow them the possibility to grant patent licenses with one hand (e.g. under the Apache 2.0 license) while suing with the other... but Microsoft Open Technologies being a "wholly-owned subsidiary" actually means (I think) that the license would consider them the same "Legal Entity", so that particular trick wouldn't work.
The entire thread was limited to discussing the actual patch implementation.
Good for the patch submitter for doing two things:
1)sticking around and answer any questions about the patch. Some people dump their patch and leave.
2) For making their modification stay behind an input flag, ie they aren't pushing this as the default, though it looks like maybe it should be.
And today I found out about "Microsoft Open Technologies, Inc." I've never heard of that group before!