Because Microsoft wrecks almost everything it touches lately, including its own sacred-cow products like Windows itself, in an effort to force it to serve the company’s interests over those of its (paying!) customers?

Xamarin has improved, they've improved how git handles large repos, typescript is extremely stable...

I mean, on the consumer end they're definitely kind of failing, with the notable exception of minecraft being supported far more than any other game. Seems more like people are still stuck in the Ballmer state of mind - even Windows itself had to practically perform a 180 thanks to Ballmer's obsession with low powered tablets.

Okay, so you don't like Microsoft. But that doesn't answer the original question - why is this betrayal?

100% disagree there. microsoft has a bunch of amazing software -- vscode, visual studio, azure cloud is actually quite good, sqlserver actually runs on linux (and it's a good db!).

microsoft under satya is a great company and doesn't even compare to the ballmer days.

>microsoft under satya is a great company and doesn't even compare to the ballmer days.

I think everyone here would agree with that assessment. But ultimately Microsoft is not a neutral party, and this news will cause a massive fracture in the open source community. This is the death of what GitHub was.

>I think everyone here would agree with that assessment.

Ah, for the days when HN was a refuge from this type of bullshit.