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      1 day ago

      Describe the abstraction layers of a closed source project in the context of Microsoft

      You can’t, unless you work for Microsoft

      There’s market forces, which is not what you described; rather tooling and nuance specific to software development

      When Microsoft controls the input and outputs, it’s a closed loop affected by Microsoft governance, not random tools, systems or transparent inputs

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        12 hours ago

        I’m a software engineer at a large company you may not have heard of, but you almost certainly know at least one of their brands. Abstraction layers are all over the place; they’re not a symptom of open-source software, they’re a symptom of lots of modern software.

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          10 hours ago

          How do external factors affect closed source systems, when the entire lifecycle is governed by Microsoft

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              5 hours ago

              Well indeed, if the closed source project has closed SDLC that’s the definition of developed and governed with internally defined goals and abstractions

              Literally the definition of