The big FOSS vendors don't eat their own dogfood – they pay for proprietary groupware

[lproven@social.vivaldi.net]

The big FOSS vendors don't eat their own dogfood – they pay for proprietary groupware

SUSE exec blurts that the company uses Teams

Open Source Policy Summit 2026: That's not a good idea

(www.theregister.com)

That's… *not* a good idea

<- by me on @theregister

#OpenSourcePolicySummit2026

[willduckworth@infosec.exchange]

@lproven An interesting read as always. Thanks

[david_chisnall@infosec.exchange]

@lproven @theregister

Hotmail and LinkedIn are largely free-to-use services. These are not profit centers for Microsoft

LinkedIn is large enough as a revenue source for Microsoft that it gets its own entry in the financial reports. It is bringing in multiple billions of dollars.

[rogerbw@discordian.social]

@lproven I know this is the standard phrase, but I still prefer "drink their own champagne". I mean, I could be making the best dogfood in the world and I still wouldn't want to eat it myself.

[gklyne@indieweb.social]

@theregister @lproven Liked: “Commercial software is an accidental side effect of cooperatively developed software.”

[brahms@chaos.social]

@lproven @theregister @david_chisnall

"The thing is that Microsoft's management is smart enough to take a long-term view"

thats also an interesting take given the state of Windows atm ...

[david_chisnall@infosec.exchange]

@brahms @lproven @theregister

Oh, I missed that. Having worked with Microsoft's management, I can say categorically that this is untrue. I worked on projects with a three-year timeline and they failed because management could not think that far ahead.