Open source commercialization in large data age--coexistence of opportunity and responsibility

EnCircle-the former Microsoft to open source pain in the killer

1984, Richard Stallman launched GNU and Free Softwarefoundation, which has been open source for more than 28 years. From the bottom of the operating system to the Advanced http://www.aliyun.com/zixun/aggregation/8284.html > Desktop applications, there are open source footprint. Linux, which is especially open source operating system, is a controversial issue and is subject to many commercial attacks. Many people like to put open source and business together, to accuse Open source is how "irregular", "energy consumption", "instability" and so on, especially Microsoft.

To deal with open source Microsoft is the most adept at patent, more than 10 years ago only 200 patents, and now the number of patents reached 3,000 annually. Mark Webbink, the Red Hat Company's legal advisor, thinks Microsoft's move is aimed at protecting business interests and limiting competitors ' concerns. It is reported that because of the high cost of inquiry patent infringement (5000 dollars per patent search), many Linux customers or developers to invest in the patent issue is not much energy. They will be in a vulnerable position once they have been charged with infringement.

Microsoft has a lot of tricks for Linux, such as accessing Linux-related websites and newsgroups, and even talking directly to investors on the open source software, to fully understand how Linux works so that it can eventually destroy Linux. Employ a large number of Linux developers, including former IBM Linux technology principals, to test, research, and identify vulnerabilities in about 20 Open-source software. (This is the truth about Microsoft hiring Linux developers)

Microsoft also funded about 13 studies comparing Linux with its own products, launching a "truth campaign" to attack the cost advantages of Linux. Create uncertainty among Linux potential users and shake their resolve to use Linux. To this end, SCO continued to work with Linux, the main supporter of IBM legal proceedings. Access to Linux-related patents claiming to sue businesses that violate their patents. Adopt a flexible pricing strategy to prevent users from migrating to Linux. For the middle sellers of Linux, the so-called "deep talk" to them to sell their products at the same time.

Cloud ERA-Microsoft begins to accept open source

Microsoft launched a Community Technology Preview (Community Marvell Preview, CTP) test build (Test-build) for the permanent VM feature in the spring of 2012. Microsoft itself is ready to support a permanent VM, especially in support of Linux. It is not surprising that Microsoft will allow users to build permanent VMs on Azure. Although Azure has permanent storage capabilities, its inability to maintain a permanent VM has annoyed many people and they are not just Linux server administrators. There are also some SharePoint and SQL Server administrators who have deliberately avoided azure for this flaw. There are ways to make up for Azure's inability to maintain permanent VM flaws, but they're not easy.

Over the years, Microsoft has supported Linux on its Hyper-V virtual machine platform, starting with SuSE Linux. Today, Microsoft also supports Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) and CentOS. There are also rumours that last summer, Microsoft was planning to support Debian and Ubuntu on Hyper-V, but later on. Microsoft did not support Linux because it loved Linux too much; it supported it because its customers needed Linux server support; Now customers are pushing Microsoft to support Linux more, but it's already in the clouds.

Now, Microsoft's business customers are demanding the same VM support in the cloud, and Microsoft has to provide that support. As spokesman Foley reported, "Running Linux on Azure has become a surprisingly large business customer requirement." Cloud market analysis of the operating system on the Amazon Elastic Computing Cloud (EC2) shows that 6,556 Linux instances run on the cloud compared to 1,120 windows instances. Almost 6:1 of the proportion.

(Responsible editor: The good of the Legacy)