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Is Open Source communism?

At least Microsoft would say so in the 1990s when competing with Linux

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PS: If you find it funny, here's a list of other "interesting" views.

But no, mates. Open Source is not communism ;)

"Open-source software can help protect against monopolies. For example, the rise of GNU/Linux, an open-source computer operating system, helped prevent Microsoft from being considered a monopolist.[9] Microsoft considered Linux to be their main competitor during the 1990s.[9] Many computer makers offer Linux or Windows for their users, and a large percentage of mobile phone and tablet operating systems are Android, which is a Linux variant. Not only are monopolies affected, but several other businesses with strongholds are affected. Microsoft Office has open-source competitors such as LibreOffice." (Wikipedia, Open-Source Economics)

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MiguelMJ

Now Microsoft owns GitHub

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overFlow

lol how funny is that?!?

And weird as well cos then you can ask yourself what is microsoft getting out that? How are you a corporate mono political giant and are fuelling a communism tooling system???

lol

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DocumentWrite

This is a fun blast from the past. Fast forward about 3 decades later, open source powers many fortune 500 companies. You would be hard press to find an engineering team that doesn't touch an open source language or framework.

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OpenSource

Thankfully!

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Chris Robison

Ha, and now Microsoft is one of the top open source contributors in the world.

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OpenSource

That's funny, hu.

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overFlow

Did you type that you are killing 100+ people in 3 weeks ?
Have you done it already or is it something that is coming ?

I am not the FBI I'm just asking for a friend. lol
Its awesome that you are open for contribution but do not know how disappointed how when i went to so many repos and I could never find anything that resembles the HTML and CSS and of the JavaScript that W3 schools and FreeCodeCamp taught me.
Im distressed may i please find assistance before #OcotberFest ends. I really need to make a honest valuable contribution.
I had to take a break.

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OpenSource • Edited

Omg, no!! Not killing in any literal sense. I meant we’re growing fast!

I’m sorry to hear you’re not finding repos to contribute. Ours is React, so I guess a little bit more advanced. But don’t give up! There are some good courses on Udemy that are pretty practical. You may find it useful.

Good luck

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Joshua Amaju

lol, but humans need greed as motivation to work 😂