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Re:How the .NET Foundation kerfuffle became a brouhaha by rob74 on Friday October 08, 2021 @05:47AM (#28797389)
Yeah, scary, in the "you signed an agreement without reading it properly and now your souls, er, your projects belong to us" sense. And in the case of WiX Toolset, they apparently never agreed to the terms & conditions of the .NET foundation in the first place. Also, being forced by the .NET foundation to give an account admin permissions for your repos, and then having that account move your repos to GitHub Enterprise without your permission, even without informing you... I can understand how that creates mistrust.

According to the article, the only thing the .NET foundation did for them was provide certificates, other than that they did nothing for a very long time. And then, of course, this...

Re:How the .NET Foundation kerfuffle became a brouhaha by robmen on Friday October 08, 2021 @06:00AM (#28797461)
Well, the .NET Foundation also holds the copyright and provides the CLA bots. But the great bulk of your point is correct.