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2. Microsoft and open source - Wikipedia

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   Microsoft, a technology company historically known for its opposition to the open source software paradigm, turned to embrace the approach in the 2010s. From the 1970s through 2000s under CEOs Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer, Microsoft viewed the community creation and sharing of communal code, later to be known as free and open source software, as a threat to its business, and both executives ...

3. Open-source software - Wikipedia

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   This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 12 September 2024. Software licensed to ensure source code usage rights Open-source software shares similarities with free software and is part of the broader term free and open-source software. For broader coverage of this topic, see Open-source-software movement. It has been suggested that this article ...

4. History of free and open-source software - Wikipedia

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   In January 2016 Microsoft released Chakra as open source under the MIT License; the code is available on GitHub. [65] Microsoft's stance on open source has shifted as the company began endorsing more open-source software. In 2016, Steve Balmer, former CEO of Microsoft, has retracted his statement that Linux is a malignant cancer. [66]

5. GitHub - Wikipedia

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   Headquartered in California, it has been a subsidiary of Microsoft since 2018. [7] It is commonly used to host open source software development projects. [8] As of January 2023, GitHub reported having over 100 million developers [9] and more than 420 million repositories, [10] including at least 28 million public repositories. [11]

6. Playwright (software) - Wikipedia

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   Playwright is an open-source automation library for browser testing and web scraping [3] developed by Microsoft [4][5] and launched on 31 January 2020, which has since become popular among programmers and web developers. Playwright provides the ability to automate browser tasks in Chromium, Firefox and WebKit [6] with a single API.

7. Visual Studio Code - Wikipedia

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   Visual Studio Code was first announced on April 29, 2015 by Microsoft at the 2015 Build conference. A preview build was released shortly thereafter. [14]On November 18, 2015, the project "Visual Studio Code — Open Source" (also known as "Code — OSS"), on which Visual Studio Code is based, was released under the open-source MIT License and made available on GitHub.

8. Free and open-source software - Wikipedia

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   "Free and open-source software" (FOSS) is an umbrella term for software that is simultaneously considered both free software and open-source software. [5] The precise definition of the terms "free software" and "open-source software" applies them to any software distributed under terms that allow users to use, modify, and redistribute said software in any manner they see fit, without requiring ...

9. List of free and open-source software packages - Wikipedia

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   This is a list of free and open-source software packages, computer software licensed under free software licenses and open-source licenses.Software that fits the Free Software Definition may be more appropriately called free software; the GNU project in particular objects to their works being referred to as open-source. [1]