Re:Thank you, GitHub
by skinnymuch on Wednesday November 03, 2021 @02:19PM
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What are they extinguishing? Which things do you think they extended?
Pointing out stuff from decades ago doesn’t really count as still proven tactics.
Though of course all major companies do behave and do things like EEE in different ways.
> What are they extinguishing?
All build tools that MS doesn't control. Their strategy has always been to try lock developers into their ecosystem so that only their ecosystem has all the software people want.
> Which things do you think they extended?
Acquiring and extending both Xamarin and Github. Atom editor is basically dead, MS/Github created an AI tool that presumably uses data they got from Github, they tried to remove features from free .NET tools, etc...
How long until they try to apply some more blatant vendor lock-in techniques with Github, .NET/Mono or maybe Azure?
Tactics that were true 20+ years ago are not necessarily still true today. The E E E trope is pithy and a shared cultural experience in our history. This does not immediately imply it is true now. You made no supporting argument as to why this announcement is an example of E E E. As such it contributed little to 0 content to the discussion. I suspect that is why you are getting downvoted in this instance.
I wasn't responding to the announcement. I responded to the comment above me.
Start a new discussion post instead of tagging into the current one.
My comment is in direct response to the parent comment, so no. This is on-topic.
Context or Details!! What will they extinguish Github??
E: Pointing out proven, explicitly-defined-in-internal-emails tactics used by Microsoft always seems to get downvoted on HN. Why? Would someone like to start a conversation?