By way of comparison, Microsoft is the single largest funder of academic CS research in the world, significantly larger than the NSF or US government, and unlike competing companies like Google and Apple they encourage academic researchers to publish papers on the work they fund to the point where if you don’t publish your work you don’t get more funding from them. Microsoft also doesn’t file patents on the academic research they fund.
But we all know Microsoft is the one that’s evil, because they bought GitHub unlike Google which is merely trying to stifle all use of and research in the most important arena in CS.
But we all know Microsoft is the one that’s evil, because they bought GitHub unlike Google which is merely trying to stifle all use of and research in the most important arena in CS.