Does Microsoft hate open source?
Microsoft has admitted it was wrong about open source, after the company battled it and Linux for years at the height of its desktop domination. Former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer famously branded Linux “a cancer that attaches itself in an intellectual property sense to everything it touches” back in 2001.
Why does Apple not like GPLV3?
Apple is unwilling to publish the source code of proprietary non-Darwin applications and libraries in their OS. GPLv3 enforces copyleft upon anyone who links to a GPLv3 application. To Apple, this is likely seen as an unacceptable risk no matter the cost and therefore bash is replaced with zsh.
Is Microsoft a good competitor to open source?
While Microsoft’s attitude has somewhat mellowed (compared to the past), many in the open source community still see Microsoft as a rather aggressive (and foul) competitor, particularly with respect to the negative campaigns and to the way they license their patented technologies (the “Open Specification Promise”).
What do you think about open source projects?
Open source projects generally like technical competition. The Halloween documents showed that Microsoft didn’t want to compete on technical terms, they wanted to disrupt open source projects so they didn’t have to. Open sources like a fair fight, basically.
Is Microsoft the only proprietary software company?
Microsoft is clearly not the only proprietary company. Companies like Apple have done a lot worse when it comes to restrictions on software. Why does Microsoft get most of the hatred from the open source community?
What was the first incident where Microsoft tried to destroy open source?
I guess if there’s any one “incident” then it was the so-called “Halloween Documents”, which were a series of memoranda that were leaked by a Microsoft employee to Eric S. Raymond in the late 90’s, detailing Microsoft’s desire to “disrupt the progress of open source software.”