[kwlug-disc] SONiC is not a hedgehog

[B.S.]

I wonder if MS is taking a page / learning from Oracle in terms of apps as a profit centre through addons and base / community editions. Not that I know how successful Oracle has been in that. e.g. java, virtualbox, sql (?). IIRC, MS has consolidated development tools and has Lite versions, and vm's even, so 'free' is perhaps not new, vs this addition of Open Source.

Haven't heard anything re: OS' either. Even if I had, IIUC, a open source Win 10 version would have forked over spyware / turning off MS seeing all that one does. (?)

Has the model for serious profits out of FOSS bases now been established / proven? In Redhat?


----- Original Message -----
> From: Colin Mills <colin.j.mills96 at gmail.com>
> To: KWLUG discussion <kwlug-disc at kwlug.org>
> Sent: Thursday, March 10, 2016 1:14 AM
> Subject: Re: [kwlug-disc] SONiC is not a hedgehog
> 
> I personally think its a great step forward. It means that Microsoft
> has finally seen the benefit in Open Source. Mind you in some circles
> it could be seen as a bad thing, but thats the beauty in being able to
> fork, or you know start your own project!
> 
> On Thu, Mar 10, 2016 at 12:38 AM, Bob Jonkman <bjonkman at sobac.com> wrote:
>>  The world as we know it has ended:
>> 
>>  http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/03/09/microsoft_sonic_debian/
>> 
>>>  Put down your coffee gently. Microsoft has today released a homegrown
>>>  open-source operating system, based on Debian GNU/Linux, that runs on
>>>  network switches.
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