Hard-Core Micro-Soft

Dr. Roy Schestowitz

2019-10-13 13:06:07 UTC
Modified: 2019-10-13 13:06:07 UTC

They never speak about freedom

Open Core

Summary: The word "core" is increasingly being (mis)used to portray user-hostile proprietary software as something more benign if not "open"

YESTERDAY in the IRC channels there was this discussion about how Microsoft had leveraged the word "core". It's so flexible a word. Just about everything has a core. Consider Microsoft's Open Cloud Summit and the infamous Open Core Summit which censors people. Be very wary and suspicious of the word "core" (e.g. ".NET Core") unless it refers to a processor. Otherwise it's a shrewdly-marketed trap. ⬆

“When you speak about interoperability [...] He meant among different versions of Windows.”

--Joe Wilcox, Microsoft Fan, 14 June 2006

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