Microsoft Donated Money to Gnome: Remember How They Attacked Open Source Before

Re:Microsoft Donated Money to Gnome: Remember How They Attac... by SketchySeaBeast on Tuesday June 21, 2022 @09:52AM (#31823955)

That's not necessarily also a positive change in general. I don't know if "they are going to be evil, just wait!" is a useful point of view when you could be taking advantage of their not being evil today.

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Re:Microsoft Donated Money to Gnome: Remember How They Attac... by rnd0 on Tuesday June 21, 2022 @10:16AM (#31824205)

> I don't know if "they are going to be evil, just wait!" is a useful point of view when you could be taking advantage of their not being evil today.

You can do both, at least as a user. Take advantage of the positive resources (github, etc) while being aware of or even supporting alternatives as well (god help us if we ever lose GCC and CLang becomes a monopoly).

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Re:Microsoft Donated Money to Gnome: Remember How They Attac... by SketchySeaBeast on Tuesday June 21, 2022 @10:18AM (#31824218)

Totally agree with that, no reason to not take advantage of other environments as well.

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Re:Microsoft Donated Money to Gnome: Remember How They Attac... by lakomen on Tuesday June 21, 2022 @09:58AM (#31824020)

Well sorry if I'm not buying the good Samaritan act.

There are still many bad things they do, like pressure schools into teaching only about MS products in "computer" classes.

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Re:Microsoft Donated Money to Gnome: Remember How They Attac... by SketchySeaBeast on Tuesday June 21, 2022 @10:17AM (#31824211)

That's fine, but it has an opportunity cost.

I came out of a dotnet post-secondary school but I'm now currently working on a React/Node/GraphQL team, I don't see it as a negative in the way you're portraying it here. I think C# is a great starting language both because of the great tool support and the sort of medium level of abstraction.

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