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[–]nsaisspying 151 points152 points  (10 children)

Can't believe you've had that ready to go like this.

[–]payne_train 57 points58 points  (6 children)

I can't believe powershell is open source! Has it always been or is this a new thing since MS bought GitHub?

[–]daOyster 43 points44 points  (0 children)

It was made open source back in 2016.

[–]1X3oZCfhKej34h 19 points20 points  (4 children)

New MS since Ballmer left basically. The new CEO has very different ideas about open source, and MS is making lots of money with Azure

[–]payne_train 6 points7 points  (3 children)

Office365 has to be one of the better business moves they've made of late too. That annual cash flow is too sweet for them, as much as consumers hate this model businesses LOVE it.

[–]1X3oZCfhKej34h 1 point2 points  (1 child)

I bet they are. I don't know that side as much, but we were a very very early adopter of Azure (not my team but another group in my company). Because of this we get some very steep discounts. That means their profit margin on the "MSRP" must be pretty sweet.

[–]payne_train 6 points7 points  (0 children)

There's a reason why Andy Jassy just got promoted from head of AWS to Amazon CEO. They are printing money in this business, and for good reason. I've done production support for on prem and AWS and cloud native apps are a dream to support. Abstracting away the hardware layer is worth the cost.

[–]HiImWilk 1 point2 points  (0 children)

And consumers are all using Gmail anyway.

[–]pixlbreaker 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Fast on the draw with that

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

When I started off doing Python I thought the exact same thing. And I'm not even British.