Microsoft is Turning Eclipse Into Proprietary Software Tool by Sinking its Claws Into the Eclipse Foundation
- Dr. Roy Schestowitz
- 2016-03-08 17:01:14 UTC
- Modified: 2016-03-08 17:01:14 UTC
"Embrace, extend, extinguish" (EEE) is what they call it...
EEEclipse?
Summary: Microsoft is spreading proprietary software and surveillance, extorting Linux with software patents and also contaminating FOSS frameworks, all in less than a single day
LESS than a day after the latest "loves Linux" nonsense we begin to see puff pieces, e.g. [1, 2, 3], which seem more like Microsoft advertisements than actual journalism. No critical thinking, no background/research, no fact-checking. Nothing. Just parroting Microsoft's marketing/propaganda.
"Microsoft today announced that it is joining the Eclipse Foundation," one 'journalist' wrote, "the open source group that’s probably best known for its Eclipse IDE, but which also offers a number of other developer tools."
This is "embrace, extend, extinguish," for reasons we already explained in the following past articles:
Eclipse is actually against software patents, which Microsoft
uses against Linux even this week. What was the leadership of Eclipse thinking here? That Microsoft has changed? That there's a 'new' Microsoft? No such thing, it's all marketing/reputation laundering.
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"I would love to see all open source innovation happen on top of Windows."
--Steve Ballmer, Microsoft CEO
