lotnictwo: Microsoft and open source

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GitHub ( ) is a proprietary developer platform that allows developers to create, store, manage, and share their code. It uses Git to provide distributed version control, and GitHub itself provides access control, bug tracking, software feature requests, task management, continuous integration, and wikis for every project. GitHub, headquartered in San Francisco, is operated by GitHub, Inc., a subsidiary of Microsoft since 2018. It is commonly used to host open source software development projects. As of January 2023, GitHub reported having over 100 million developers and more than 420 million repositories, including at least 28 million public repositories. It is the world's largest source co…

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Microsoft acquires GitHub. As <em> The Verge </em> reports Microsoft acquires GitHub. According to <em> The Verge </em> GitHub was "last valued at $2 billion back in 2015, but it's not clear exactly how much Microsoft has paid to acquire GitHub." <em> The Verge </em> also considers the purchase as a promotion of Microsoft's open source strategy and suspects the acquisition could meet mistrust in the open source scene.

Evidence: 36 • authority: 88

Microsoft acquires GitHub. As <em> The Verge </em> reports Microsoft acquires GitHub. According to <em> The Verge </em> GitHub was "last valued at $2 billion back in 2015, but it's not clear exactly how much Microsoft has paid to acquire GitHub." <em> The Verge </em> also considers the purchase as a promotion of Microsoft's open source strategy and suspects the acquisition could meet mistrust in the open source scene.

Evidence: 27 • authority: 88

Creating Automated Microsoft Bicep Application Infrastructure from GitHub in the Azure Cloud. Infrastructure as code (IaC) is essential for modern cloud development, enabling teams to define, deploy, and manage infrastructure in a consistent and repeatable manner. As organizations migrate to Azure, selecting the right approach is crucial for managing complexity, minimizing errors, and supporting DevOps practices. This paper examines the use of Azure Bicep with GitHub Actions to automate infrastructure deployment for an application in the Azure cloud. It explains how Bicep improves readability, modularity, and integration compared to traditional ARM templates and other automation tools. The…

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Microsoft Corporation is an American multinational technology conglomerate headquartered in Redmond, Washington. The company became influential in the rise of personal computers through software like Windows and has since expanded into areas such as Internet services, cloud computing, artificial intelligence and video gaming among others. A Big Tech company, Microsoft is the largest software company by revenue, one of the most valuable public companies, and one of the most valuable brands globally. Founded in 1975 by Bill Gates and Paul Allen to market BASIC interpreters for the Altair 8800, Microsoft rose to dominate the PC operating system market with MS-DOS in the mid-1980s, followed by…

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Support open source software as a GitHub sponsor. Two years ago GitHub introduced the ability to sponsor an open source contributor – person or organization. They handle (and pay for) the payment logistics for a one-time or regular contribution. A blog post from June 2019 describes the thinking of the GiHub Sponsors team that went into this service, and the practicalities of using the service are documented here.

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Support open source software as a GitHub sponsor. Two years ago GitHub introduced the ability to sponsor an open source contributor – person or organization. They handle (and pay for) the payment logistics for a one-time or regular contribution. A blog post from June 2019 describes the thinking of the GiHub Sponsors team that went into this service, and the practicalities of using the service are documented here.

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Doe v. GitHub, Microsoft, and OpenAI is a class action lawsuit filed in November 2022 by anonymous software developers against Microsoft, GitHub, and OpenAI. The lawsuit alleges that GitHub's artificial intelligence (AI) coding assistant Copilot was trained on publicly available source code hosted on GitHub, including code released under open source licenses, and that it could reproduce portions of such code without complying with the relevant license terms or keeping the required copyright management information. The plaintiffs allege that this conduct violated the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). The original complaint also asserted claims for breach of contract, unfair competitio…

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MeTime: an R package for reproducible longitudinal metabolomics data analysis.. Summary MeTime is an opensource R package for reproducible analysis of longitudinal metabolomics data. It builds upon a central S4 container, metime_analyser, that stores multiple datasets, associated metadata and analysis outputs, enabling unified handling of complex longitudinal studies. Analyses are constructed by piping modular functions, beginning with data transformations (mod_*), followed by calculations (calc_*), and optional meta-analysis (meta_*), so entire workflows remain transparent and easy to modify. MeTime wraps numerous existing methods within a consistent interface, including sample and metabol…

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Microsoft, a tech company historically known for its opposition to the open source software paradigm, turned to embrace the approach in the 2010s. From the 1970s through the 2000s under CEOs Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer, Microsoft viewed the community creation and sharing of communal code, later to be known as free and open source software, as a threat to its business, and both executives spoke negatively against it. In the 2010s, as the industry turned towards cloud, embedded, and mobile computing—technologies powered by open source advances—CEO Satya Nadella led Microsoft towards open source adoption although Microsoft's traditional Windows business continued to grow throughout this perio…