Azure IoT Loves Open Source

This post was very short and specific but in regards to what Microsoft (Where I work) contributes to open source, well there is a lot of traction in the last few years with Satya at the helm, who has helped really enable a lot of this.<p>So just in case anyone is curious here are a bunch of links to just how much we&#x27;re doing in the open now:<p>(1) Azure repo collection: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;Azure" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;Azure</a> (2) Microsoft general repo collection: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;microsoft" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;microsoft</a> (3) .NET Core open source repo: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;microsoft&#x2F;dotnet" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;microsoft&#x2F;dotnet</a>

Here we go again.. Just like the post in Github ( <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=12558053" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=12558053</a> ) some people are so hatefull on companies because they had some bad press ( github vs gitlab ( github didn&#x27;t do anything new for a long time and then gitlab came in) and the past of Microsoft vs linux.<p>For all the haters here below, who &quot;actually&quot; blame one developer, who shares his code ( because he posts a project) and he hasn&#x27;t got another contribution on his new account...<p>Let me remind you, Microsoft is the #1 contributer on Github now, topping Google and Facebook together. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.slashdot.org&#x2F;story&#x2F;16&#x2F;09&#x2F;15&#x2F;2255241&#x2F;microsoft-has-more-open-source-contributors-on-github-than-facebook-and-google" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.slashdot.org&#x2F;story&#x2F;16&#x2F;09&#x2F;15&#x2F;2255241&#x2F;microsoft-h...</a><p>Please, now let&#x27;s go back to IoT and ontopic. Too bad i don&#x27;t know a lot of IoT on Azure, but i have viewed some projects about IoT of Microsoft on Hackster, their project page: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.hackster.io&#x2F;microsoft&#x2F;products&#x2F;microsoft-azure" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.hackster.io&#x2F;microsoft&#x2F;products&#x2F;microsoft-azure</a><p>Thanks dluc for sharing, i hope i have topic worthy stuff to contribute next time ;) - one point of discussion would be to link to the project page instead next time - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;azure&#x2F;toketi-iothubreact" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;azure&#x2F;toketi-iothubreact</a> or <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;azure.microsoft.com&#x2F;en-us&#x2F;blog&#x2F;developer-s-introduction-to-azure-iot&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;azure.microsoft.com&#x2F;en-us&#x2F;blog&#x2F;developer-s-introduct...</a>, it would probably fuse some less discussion - we like code :p

Slightly tangental, however I&#x27;ve been waiting for months for an Azure IoT thread to post this mini rant on...<p>My team and I spent a few weeks working with Azure IoT before instigating a switch to an alternative.<p>The problem with Azure IoT as a platform is that they provide SDK documentation (which is relatively good for languages they like), but not API documentation for the AMQP interface which is their preferred method of connecting devices. Their support for python clients and servers (in particular servers) left me and my team spending circa 10 days digging through AMQP logs and wireshark in ever more desperate attempts to integrate our existing python server with Azure IoT. Eventually it became clear that our only option was to wrap the C library for a really brittle integration and that we could switch to a different platform with far less effort! Both Amazon IoT and Watson IoT have been far smoother to integrate with since they provide both SDK and API docs!<p>The tough thing about it is that on the surface it looks as though it&#x27;s really well documented and it&#x27;s not until you hit your first big problem that you start looking around for API docs to try and debug what exactly it is that&#x27;s wrong!<p>Currently really fond of Watson IoT for the decent python SDK&#x27;s (we&#x27;ve only got 2-3 patches in a fork!) and the really handy device management features which can make rebooting etc much easier from the server side. The MQTT implementation they&#x27;ve worked on is great too.

So they open sourced, a client ? who cares?<p>Good example: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;BitFunnel" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;BitFunnel</a> (full-text-seach from bing)

Is there any compromise about Microsoft not going to sue Open Source projects anymore? (FAT patents, etc.)

When I thought about MS could potentially buy Redhat and Canonical and such and swallow the major open source companies with cash, I woke up sweating.

What they actually love here is to crab as much data as possible.

Microsoft PR arm again on HN. We all known what Microsoft loves.

Now M$ loves open source? What a joke. Most developers still don&#x27;t like it and the fresh ones almost don&#x27;t need to pay much attention. Farewell, M$. Now it&#x27;s time to make Google and Facebook to &quot;loves privacy&quot;, in regrets.