Comment on EnteAuth (and a bunch of other FOSS) take Microsoft's "free" money
kennedy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days agoyes exactly, my problem is not the money. These giant tech firms have use free projects all the time without any support at all. My problem is that I do not trust Microsoft at all.
orclev@lemmy.world 2 days ago
In terms of the open source community Microsoft has been significantly less sketchy than usual for about a decade now. For those of us that are old enough to remember the halloween files it’s hard to let go of that paranoia, particularly with the sketchy shit MS has been doing with their proprietary stuff lately, but near as I can tell they’ve been above board on their open source stuff.
I wouldn’t go so far as to say blindly trust them at this point, but I wouldn’t just assume with no evidence at all that there has to be something nefarious going on either.
kennedy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
I’ve never heard of the Halloween files I just looked it up and that’s just so crazy. I don’t know what’s going on behind closed doors in their c-suite but I wouldn’t be surprised if this fund is a way to get their hands into open source projects. Like you said there’s no explicit proof so it’s best to be be cautious.