No love for Microsoft?

[samihoda]

Microsoft login support would be awesome. A lot of people have Office365, and other MS services just like Google...

[pboling]

Disclaimer: I am not a part of this project, and I actively avoid Microsoft everything.

Open source contributors often do not work in enterprisey environments, and many of them consider active avoidance of Microsoft to be a worthwhile life goal. If MS compatibility is desirable then someone someone with a vested interest needs to step up.

Lack of support love for Microsoft in open source is literally never surprising.

[samihoda]

LOL. Lots of assumptions there. Is this being written for developers, or for use by real life end users. Local government is adopting Office365, and they use a lot of open source as well.

[pboling]

The readme states:

... more to come (PRs welcome)

You assume that means "no love for Microsoft", when it could simply mean they are the least important integration from the perspective of the contributors, at the bottom of the priority list.

Open source is for the developers, to make it easier for developers to do more with less effort by sharing innovations. If no one on this project uses Microsoft, then it likely will never happen.

Open source is for the "real life end users" as a secondary consideration.

In most discussion of open source the "end user" is in fact the developer. The one implementing the open source tool. The "End User License Agreement" for open source software usually applies to the developer / company implementing the open source software, and not the secondary users.

It's not a simple thing to stand up a Microsoft auth service to test against.

Support for Microsoft would be useful for people using Microsoft as a platform... but who will build it?

Maybe the team behind this tool are willing to take it on, for free, having no personal interest in it, and deriving no utility from it (my assumption that if they were using MS tools the integration would have been prioritized)... but that is a rarity in the open source world.

[samihoda]

Relax. I didn't assume anything. This was a nice way of saying, "hey guys, MS is important for some people too." Don't read too much into it. MS does make it easy to test against it, see: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/vsts/integrate/get-started/authentication/oauth.

[lipp]

@pboling @samihoda Everyone is welcomed! Would be very happy to include OAuth with MS!!! PRs welcomed :)