Microsoft Joins a Linux Foundation Nonprofit's Effort to Decarbonize the Grid (zdnet.com) 50
"Microsoft has joined forces with LF Energy, a Linux Foundation nonprofit working to accelerate the energy transition of the world's grids and transportation systems through open source," reports ZDNet:
Microsoft has become a strategic member of the foundation and Audrey Lee, senior director of energy strategy at Microsoft, was elected to serve on the LF Energy Foundation Governing Board. Dr. Shuli Goodman, executive director of LF Energy, told ZDNet that the foundation believes Microsoft will play an important role in helping to advance their mission of decarbonization of the power grid, transportation and the built environment.
"LF Energy Foundation is thrilled to have Microsoft join our organization as a General member. Through Microsoft's commitment to a carbon negative position they are directly encouraging the tech sector to look for more efficient ways to purchase and consume power," Goodman said.
"LF Energy nurtures the most cutting edge of all open source projects focused on improving automation, control, security, virtualization, and interoperability of power systems. Our members contribute valuable code, tooling, resources and expertise to increase the velocity of these projects...."
Goodman called Microsoft a "force multiplier" and said having the company backing LF Energy will help propel their projects forward at a rapid pace.
"LF Energy Foundation is thrilled to have Microsoft join our organization as a General member. Through Microsoft's commitment to a carbon negative position they are directly encouraging the tech sector to look for more efficient ways to purchase and consume power," Goodman said.
"LF Energy nurtures the most cutting edge of all open source projects focused on improving automation, control, security, virtualization, and interoperability of power systems. Our members contribute valuable code, tooling, resources and expertise to increase the velocity of these projects...."
Goodman called Microsoft a "force multiplier" and said having the company backing LF Energy will help propel their projects forward at a rapid pace.
Step 1 (Score:4, Insightful)
Embrace
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Let's hope it will not go to the remaining 2 "e"s.
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Let's hope it will not go to the remaining 2 "e"s.
If that actually worked then why didn't they do it with Linux or OpenOffice or Java?
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Yep, and that's the step Microsoft has stopped at with everything for the past decade.
Find yourself a new meme.
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Embrace, accidentally ruin it with a lot of bad ideas, everyone leaves it is not as catchy
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Also hasn't happened. The only thing MS has ruined are the things they bought and sold as their own product.
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Embrace Extend Extinguish! MiKKKO$OFT IS EVIL!
Microsoft doesn't support {thing}:
Proprietary vendor lock-in! MiKKKO$OFT IS EVIL!
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{Company} doing {Thing} in article is bad because {Company's previous action}!
Reply to person defending {Company|Thing}, calling them a paid shill.
{Company's previous action} not Found?
Deride submitter for posting 'Slashvertisement'.
worthless (Score:5, Insightful)
Note that they have yet to contribute anything to the EFF or FSF, nor help programmers prosecute GPL violations through the SPA.
Until they do any of those, their "open source" efforts right hollow
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There are plenty of people and organizations doing open-source that are unrelated to either the EFF or FSF.
There are open-source licenses that are not the GPL.
Some of us believe that writing code is more important than focusing on the politics of open-source.
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MS has too much to atone for, as far as I'm concerned.
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Ridiculous claim, when compared to the actions of both MS and the BSA.
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MS has too much to atone for, as far as I'm concerned.
Why should MS "atone" giving money to the FSF and financing GPL lawsuits?
There are far better ways for MS to support open source.
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Because of their history, starting with Bill Gates' "Letter to Hobbiests".
Re:worthles (Score:2)
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Because of their history, starting with Bill Gates' "Letter to Hobbiests".
So Bill Gates said that people shouldn't use stuff without permission ...
help programmers prosecute GPL violations
... and your solution is for MS to sue people for using stuff without permission.
???
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Because of their history, starting with Bill Gates' "Letter to Hobbiests".
So you think copyright is important to enforce or not? It seems like you think it is ("help programmers prosecute GPL violations") but then you allude to a view that you think point of Bill Gates' Letter to Hobbyists - the crux of which is enforcing copyright - is a bad thing? Or perhaps it was something else in that letter that you were talking about?
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If they are willing to contribute to the effort to make computing carbon negative then I'm happy to have them onboard.
It's been a long time since they did anything against free software, and in fact now they have embraced it and not shown any signs of trying to extinguish it. Most Azure VMs are Linux, for example.
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There are plenty of people and organizations doing open-source that are unrelated to either the EFF or FSF.
There are open-source licenses that are not the GPL.
Some of us believe that writing code is more important than focusing on the politics of open-source.
More important to who in what context? If you look at the achievements of people writing open source code, yes, we do have interesting software. Some new services. Facebook. Most of those would probably have become available without open source, but they have come quicker and better than otherwise.
If you look at what Phil Zimmerman did with PGP, specifically putting himself forward to accept legal risk, ensuring that we could all get access to PGP, he has allowed us to have what little chance we have of
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You, as an AC, have absolutely no standing to tell me to "educate myself", especially considering Microsoft's history in both politics and software ideology to advance their monopoly, at the cost of "code" which you (supposedly) value.
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I very well know the difference between "Free Software" and "Open Source".
You, on the other hand, are yet another worthless AC.
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Linux, specifically, would be nowhere without the GPL
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Until they do any of those, their "open source" efforts right hollow
Ahh the good ol' No True opensource contributor fallacy.
Other news (Score:5, Funny)
Wolf obtains job as sheep school bus driver.
Decarbonizing is easy (Score:5, Insightful)
But how are we going to deMicrosoft the grid?
I forget how that story goes, you get cat to get rid of mice, then you get a dog to get rid of the cat...
Re: Decarbonizing is easy (Score:2)
There was an old lady who swallowed a fly...
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Well, you learn something new every day. I did not know a cow could catch a goat
Re: Decarbonizing is easy (Score:2)
It's not a perfect metaphor.. :)
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What's a metaphor?
What's a henway?
BSA (Score:2)
Microsoft joined the BSA a long time ago and is still a member. Decarbonizing your licensing. No better advertisement for free software than an experience with the BSA.
Nothing like Hollywood style accounting, where any copy is a lost sale. Oh, you have proper serial numbers but you didn't keep the paper with the hologram sticker on it? So sorry that is a lost sale, pay up at a premium now. Thieves.
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I've worked on BSD/Apache licensed, and GPL2/3 licensed projects.
They're both open source. If the people who started the project wanted the license to be unrestricted (free to abuse consumers of the compiled code) or restricted (not free to abuse consumers of the compiled code) that's their call.
Copyleft does serve a purpose, and I think it's a great option for those who want to make sure their work stays open.
I, personally, have always licensed my code with a
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No better advertisement for free software than an experience with the BSA.
Can confirm. BSA is even more vile than the MPAA and RIAA.
The "Bust Your Boss!" campaign and the fishing expeditions... I mean audits, that followed... fuck those pieces of shit.
If it had been legal for them to send armed thugs, they would have.
How does OSS build nuclear reactors? (Score:2)
Sorry, I am failing to see how open source software is going to build nuclear reactors, or change public policy to make doing so feasible? The only way the grid is going to get decarbonized while keeping current levels of reliability is going to be with many more nuclear plants.
maybe bloatware should be illegal? (Score:2)