[kwlug-disc] SONiC is not a hedgehog

[Colin Mills]

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!
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Colin J. Mills (cjm)
"Don't patch bad code - rewrite it" -- P. J. Plauger



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.
>>
>> The software is dubbed SONiC, aka Software for Open Networking in the
>> Cloud. It's a toolkit of code and kernel patches to bend switch
>> hardware to your will, so you can dictate how it works and what it
>> can do, rather than relying on proprietary firmware from a
>> traditional networking vendor.
>
> [...]
>
>> Today's news follows Microsoft's other bombshell this week: a port of
>> SQL Server for Linux, due out in 2017. This is all extremely
>> surprising given the Windows giant was hell bent on destroying Linux
>>  until very recently.
>
> [...]
>
>> Redmond fans insist their favorite IT giant has turned a new leaf,
>> that it no longer likens open-source to cancer and communism, and
>> that it now truly loves Linux. Those of us who found themselves on
>> the business end of Microsoft in the 1990s will be thinking of the
>> old words from a nearly forgotten age. Embrace. Extend... ®
>
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