【江湖趣事】话说开源界和微软的那些往日恩怨

近日惊闻微软收购GitHub,这下该网站的很多粉丝坐不住了,“这以后还能愉快的同×××友吗?”更有甚者,什么Bitbucket, Gitlab 都在搞迁移促销,似乎GitHub到了微软手上就像喜儿嫁给黄世仁一样。

 

这也难怪了,让我想起了82年的… … Oh No,是2000年的一个老段子:



在2000年的一个会上,Eric Raymond 遇到“西装领带、牛B哄哄”的Craig Mundie。

Eric 问他:“你丫给微软打工?”

Craig Mundie:“嗯呐,老哥你干吗的你?”



哈——哈——哈,此处应有掌声,“我是你最惊悚的噩梦!”

 

Craig Mundie 何许人也?


在微软从1992年干到2014年,是直接给CEO谏言的Chief Researcher & Strategy Officer !



Eric Raymond 咋那么牛B呢?

 

人家确实有牛B的资本,开源界圣经——《大教堂与集市》就是这哥们写的。


连同“为人不识Stallman,混遍开源也枉然”的Richard Stallman 以及Linux他爸爸Linus Torvalds等都是开源界“主神”。

 

更搞笑的是,这哥们后来居然还收到微软的工作机会。


From: "Mike Walters (Search Wizards)" <[email protected]>

To: <[email protected]>

Eric,

I am a member of the Microsoft Central Sourcing Team. Microsoft is seeking world class engineers to help create products that help people and businesses throughout the world realize their full potential. Your name and contact info was brought to my attention as someone who could potentially be a contributor at Microsoft.  I would love an opportunity to speak with you in detail about your interest in a career at Microsoft, along with your experience, background and qualifications.


Eric给微软HR的回信刷新了“犀利”的新高度,估计会让Mike觉得这是他在微软供职中做过的最SB的事。


To: "Mike Walters (Search Wizards)" <[email protected]>

From: <[email protected]>

I'd thank you for your offer of employment at Microsoft, except that it indicates that either you or your research team (or both) couldn't get a clue if it were pounded into you with baseball bats. What were you going to do with the rest of your afternoon, offer jobs to Richard Stallman and Linus Torvalds?  Or were you going to stick to something easier, like talking Pope Benedict into presiding at a Satanist orgy?


“你准备怎么打发下午剩下的时间呢?给Richard Stallman和Linus Torvalds发Offer吗?”



 精彩部分来了啊,敲黑板、划重点了!


If you had bothered to do five seconds of background checking, you might have discovered that I am the guy who responded to Craig Mundie's "Who are you?" with "I'm your worst nightmare", and that I've in fact been something pretty close to your company's worst nightmare since about 1997.  You've maybe heard about this "open source" thing? You get one guess who wrote most of the theory and propaganda for it and talked IBM and Wall Street and the Fortune 500 into buying in. But don't think I'm trying to destroy your company.  Oh, no; I'd be just as determined to do in any other proprietary-software monopoly, and the community I helped found is well on its way to accomplishing that goal.


“我就是跟 Craig Mundie说‘I’m your worst nightmare’的牛B哥 … … 别以为我要毁掉微软,我怼所有私有软件,我所帮助建立的开源社区会干掉你们!”


But I must thank you for dropping a good joke on my afternoon.  On that hopefully not too far distant day thatI piss on Microsoft's grave, I sincerely hope none of it will splash on you.


“不久的将来我往微软墓碑上尿尿的时候,希望不会溅到你的身上。”



GitHub 作为今天最大的开源项目代码托管网站,被微软收购?Geek和Hacker们会不舒服也是可以理解的。

 

(另外,我发现开源大牛脾气都挺大,Linus 也是一样, Stallman倒还好些)

 

话虽如此,但今非昔比了。如今的微软已不同于十年前甚至是五年前的微软了。


CEO 纳德拉好像神奇“蓝色药丸”,微软重拾雄风,股票更是超过了Google。这与微软重视开源、拥抱开源的战略调整是分不开的。



Windows Server 2016支持Docker技术以及.net core开源项目是两个我接触最多、感受最深的微软技术变革。 特别是.net core开源项目,这让很多企业的老旧.net项目向开放技术、微服务架构迁移看到了可能性。

 

我们行云创新团队有幸在2016年开始,就和某世界500强ICT厂商一起践行DevOps方法论并开展老旧.net系统微服务化工作。一些核心业务逐步迁移到 .net core + Linux环境,遗留部分迁到 Windows Server容器环境,整体实现模块化开发提升效率、多云交付改善用户体验、自动化运维主动响应。

 

支持该项目的平台软件就是行云创新的开发云产品CloudOS,她很好地支持了云时代应用从架构设计、编码测试、多云交付、主动运维等软件周期的各个环节,更是与DevOps方法论全面契合,是践行DevOps、微服务的最佳平台选择。

 

说起来,行云创新的产品研发也是与微软公司的支持分不开的—— 在Slack上Kubernetes for Windows的AIG里,行云的工程师和微软还有社区的朋友们一起打怪,解决了Kubernetes Windows网络通信、DNS服务发现等若干死硬问题,最终实现了行云产品对Linux和Windows环境下微服务组件的完美、统一支持。我们在未来的技术分享中将就此方面技术细节和大家详细介绍。

 

从十几年前的“I’m your worst nightmare”,开源与微软水火不容,到近年的“微软也爱开源”,甚至不惜重金收购长期亏损的GitHub,无论未来如何发展,我们程序员群体凝聚的创造力是无价的。如何能让大家更加聚焦于创新本身?这是我们行云创新一直在思考的。借此文章,邀请您体验一下我们行云创新公有云产品——趣码,希望她能成为您释放创新力的帮手,为您的软件开发带来效率的全面提升。



www.cloudtogo.cn

(登录注册即可使用)

零距离体验超酷的“全云端软件开发新模式”











猜你喜欢

转载自blog.51cto.com/13561855/2132907