The recent threats made by Microsoft towards the open source software (OSS) community appear to have done little to worry South African OSS companies.
Shall a legal threat (or a toothless tiger) ever get some real teeth, people can easily relocate. Microsoft could soon be driving developers and companies out of America, essentially destroying its own economy and leading to recession. Putting two and two together, might Microsoft already have regrets?
Alyssa Rosenzweig is the graphics witch behind the reverse-engineered drivers for the Apple GPU. She previously led Panfrost, the free drivers for Arm Mali GPUs powering devices like the Pinebook Pro. She graduated in 2023 with a Computer Science degree from the University of Toronto and now writes free software full-time.
Now we have a project started primarily by Red Hat (and managed by Microsoft GitHub, which is proprietary) being managed by Microsoft and primarily serving Microsoft and IBM