Latest Openwashing of Malicious, Proprietary Software Vendors
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Microsoft liberates ancient MS-DOS source from the museum and sticks it in GitHub [Ed: Microsoft releases "source code" of something which predates GNU and thus Free software as a concept. Corporate media plays along with this Microsoft PR ploy. Useless code.]
The MS-DOS 2 source dates from the 3 August 1983 release and is an altogether different beast, clocking in at around 100 source files and is considerably larger, reflecting the bigger team and feature set. In the original release notes, then MS-DOS product marketing manager Chris Larson observes that "COMMAND.ASM is currently too large to assemble on a micro".
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Microsoft Releases Crown Jewels — From 1982! [Ed: So it liberates what? Something older than me? Totally useful. Cheap PR ploy.]
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Microsoft Re-Open Sources MS-DOS 1.25 and 2.0 Codes On GitHub [Ed: Pretty useless to any existing developers.]
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Microsoft open sources MS-DOS again, this time on GitHub
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Microsoft re-open-sources early versions of MS-DOS on GitHub
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Facebook Open Sources LogDevice - a Distributed Data Store for Log Storage
Facebook open sourced their internal distributed log storage project called LogDevice. It offers high write availability using replication, durable log storage and recovery from failure.
Most of Facebook's applications that perform logging require high write availability, durable storage of logs, and workloads that vary in terms of performance and latency requirements. Another important requirement was to be able to survive hardware failures. An older Facebook project called Scribe was more focused on aggregating logs to central storage, and there were cases where data loss could occur. Scribe now uses LogDevice as a log storage backend.
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Neural Network Intelligence: Microsoft’s open source automated machine learning toolkit
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