Microsoft has received the status of a platinum member of the Linux Foundation.

Microsoft continues to strengthen its position in the Open Source-community. This is evidenced by the company's many steps in supporting open source projects. Now Microsoft’s merits were officially recognized : the company received the status of a platinum member of the Linux Foundation consortium - a non-profit organization that promotes, protects and standardizes Linux, provides resources and services to the open source community. The same was announced from the scene of the “Connect (); // 2016 ” representatives of the company.

The technical response to what happened is highly anticipated. You can express it with the most capacious today's tweet of Grigory bobuk Bakunov:


Nearly fifteen years of the "reign" of Steve Ballmer left Microsoft and its successor, Satya Nadella, a difficult legacy. But after the arrival of the new CEO, the company seriously revised its role in the market and approach to doing business.

In two years, Microsoft has become a leading company on GitHub with the largest section on Open Source. In addition, the technology giant released open source .NET Core 1.0, worked with FreeBSD, and also published a set of development tools. Now Microsoft is working with RedHat, SUSE and other companies in the development of open source products. Nadella once again proved that he plays the role of not only the CEO, but also the visionary.
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“As the company's cloud platform, we are committed to helping developers achieve more through their languages ​​and platforms,” said Scott Garthy, executive vice president of Microsoft Cloud and Enterprise Group. “The Linux Foundation is not only home to Linux, but to many other more innovative open source projects. We are very excited to join the Linux Foundation and collaborate with the community to help developers capitalize on the current transition to intelligent cloud and mobile technologies. ”

"Microsoft has grown and matured for its contribution to the Open Source-community," said the Linux Foundation executive director Jim Zemlin. “The company has become an active supporter of Linux and open source, an active participant in many important projects. Membership (in the LF note) is an important step not only for Microsoft, but also for the entire Open Source-community, from which it is worthwhile to benefit by increasing the company's participation (in various projects). ”