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14 votes
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An experiment to test GitHub Copilot's legality
11 votes -
Microsoft trying to kill HDD boot drives by 2023: Report
8 votes -
Microsoft to curb use of non-competes, drop NDAs from worker settlements, disclose salary ranges, launch civil rights audit
22 votes -
Microsoft unveils 'Super Duper Secure Mode' in latest version of Edge
6 votes -
Microsoft angers the .NET open source community with a controversial decision
24 votes -
Making bracket pair colorization 10k times faster in VSCode
7 votes -
FSF-funded call for white papers on philosophical and legal questions around Copilot
7 votes -
Announcing LAMBDA: Turn Excel formulas into custom functions
13 votes -
Bitsquatting windows.com with fourteen domains that are one bitflip away
18 votes -
Why type systems matter for UX: an example
8 votes -
"Important, Spoofing" - A zero-click, wormable, cross-platform remote code execution in Microsoft Teams
10 votes -
Remembering Windows 2000, Microsoft’s forgotten masterpiece
11 votes -
OpenBSD on the Microsoft Surface Go 2
3 votes -
The Day AppGet Died
9 votes -
Microsoft is writing its own Wayland compositor as part of WSL2 GUI efforts
9 votes -
Mainlining the Microsoft DirectX kernel driver for Linux will be an uphill battle
6 votes -
GitHub acquires npm
26 votes -
Microsoft plots the end of Visual Basic
10 votes -
The case against Microsoft and Github
10 votes -
Dangerous Domain Corp.com Goes Up for Sale
21 votes -
Today, the Trident era ends
10 votes -
Does Microsoft Have a Boeing 737 Max Style Crash Every Week?
8 votes -
Introducing Microsoft Application Inspector
9 votes -
O(n^2), again, now in Windows Management Instrumentation
10 votes -
Python for Beginners - Microsoft Developer
5 votes -
My Talk at Microsoft — Richard Stallman
9 votes -
Microsoft's STL is open-sourced
16 votes -
Fancy Zones, a tiling window manager from Microsoft
8 votes -
The new Windows Terminal
22 votes -
Introducing .NET 5
7 votes -
Microsoft Defender ATP investigation unearths privilege escalation flaw in Huawei PCManager
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Does the Oracle v. Google court case mean that Wine/DXVK is illegal?
I've been thinking about this but based on the current rulings in the Oracle v. Google court case, it would seem that APIs are indeed copyrightable. This would mean that Wine would be infringing...
I've been thinking about this but based on the current rulings in the Oracle v. Google court case, it would seem that APIs are indeed copyrightable.
This would mean that Wine would be infringing on Microsoft's copyright of the Windows API and system calls. Of course it wouldn't matter until Microsoft actually does something about it. But as Wine gets better and better and its market share higher and higher, I worry that Microsoft might set their sights on Wine now that they have the law on their side.
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The Rise of Microsoft Visual Studio Code
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What are the positive aspects of Microsoft's acquisition of GitHub, if any?
As someone who is relatively removed from the programming world (I do basic Python scripting and not much else), I'm curious to see an argument opposing what I perceive as the majority viewpoint....
As someone who is relatively removed from the programming world (I do basic Python scripting and not much else), I'm curious to see an argument opposing what I perceive as the majority viewpoint. Those against the acquisition have cited examples of Microsoft "ruining" services such as Skype and Minecraft.
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Linux Genuine Advantage
9 votes -
Microsoft’s failed attempt on Debian packaging
4 votes -
Reddit AMA: Nat Friedman, next CEO of GitHub.
14 votes -
Microsoft sinks data centre off Orkney
8 votes -
Microsoft has been talking to GitHub about possible acquisition
39 votes