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Microsoft Joins a Linux Foundation Nonprofit's Effort to Decarbonize the Grid (zdnet.com) 50

Posted by EditorDavid from the green-grids dept.
"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.
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  • Step 1 (Score:4, Insightful)

    by Z80a ( 971949 ) on Sunday September 26, 2021 @09:46PM (#61835897)

    Embrace

    • Let's hope it will not go to the remaining 2 "e"s.

      • 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?

    • Yep, and that's the step Microsoft has stopped at with everything for the past decade.

      Find yourself a new meme.

      • Re: (Score:2)

        by Z80a ( 971949 )

        Embrace, accidentally ruin it with a lot of bad ideas, everyone leaves it is not as catchy

        • Also hasn't happened. The only thing MS has ruined are the things they bought and sold as their own product.

    • Re: (Score:3)

      by Merk42 ( 1906718 )
      Microsoft supports {thing}:
      Embrace Extend Extinguish! MiKKKO$OFT IS EVIL!


      Microsoft doesn't support {thing}:
      Proprietary vendor lock-in! MiKKKO$OFT IS EVIL!
      • At this stage one can write a bot that can generate these insightful posts: "if text contains microsoft and any of (linux, oss, open), illuminate everyone for the gazillionth time on Microsoft's 90s business strategy"

        • Re: (Score:2)

          by Merk42 ( 1906718 )
          You could write a more complicated bot for Slashdot comments as a whole:

          {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)

    by nyet ( 19118 ) on Sunday September 26, 2021 @09:48PM (#61835901) Homepage

    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

    • 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.

      • Re: (Score:3)

        by nyet ( 19118 )

        MS has too much to atone for, as far as I'm concerned.

        • 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.

          • Re: (Score:2)

            by nyet ( 19118 )

            Because of their history, starting with Bill Gates' "Letter to Hobbiests".

            • Ok that letter was rather hash, and could probably have been worded a but differently, that said, I understand where Mr Gates was coming from. He was trying to build a business, and in this case the lack of revenue due to people just copying BASIC ( a d in doing so probably violated the license the creator had chosen to distribute his work under , but I digress). But that was so long ago that we should now write it off as a bad case of misscomminivation due to a coltute difference.

            • 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.

              ???

            • 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?

        • Re: (Score:2)

          by AmiMoJo ( 196126 )

          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.

      • 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

    • 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)

    by backslashdot ( 95548 ) on Sunday September 26, 2021 @10:29PM (#61836003)

    Wolf obtains job as sheep school bus driver.

  • Decarbonizing is easy (Score:5, Insightful)

    by fustakrakich ( 1673220 ) on Sunday September 26, 2021 @10:41PM (#61836023) Journal

    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...

  • 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.

    • 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.

  • 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.

  • Make code more efficient and you could save lots of power. Require everything to be written in assembly language! Only half joking...

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