Microsoft becomes a Platinum member of the Linux Foundation

Posted on Thursday, November 17 2016 @ 15:51 CET by Thomas De Maesschalck

One of the surprise announcements this week is Microsoft's decision to join the Linux Foundation. While it seemed almost inconceivable just a few years ago, the software giant is now a high-paying Platinum member, paying $500,000 a year. Other Platinum members include companies like Cisco, Fujitsu, HPE, Huawei, IBM, Intel, NEC, Oracle, Qualcomm and Samsung.

Today’s Microsoft is one of the biggest open source contributors around. Over the course of just the last few years, it has essentially built Canonical’s Ubuntu distribution into Windows 10, brought SQL Server to Linux, open-sourced core parts of its .NET platform and partnered with Red Hat, SUSE and others. As Zemlin noted, Microsoft has also contributed to a number of Linux Foundation-managed projects like Node.js, OpenDaylight, the Open Container Initiative, the R Consortium and the Open API Initiative.

Source: TechCrunch

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