Re:GitHub Private Repos Considered Private-Ish
by chrsig on Sunday June 04, 2023 @11:25AM
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> More realistically, Linux had driven them into near irrelevance in the server market and just pushed them from "extinguish" or "extend" to "embrace".
and with vscode, copilot, and wsl2 they're doing a terrifyingly good job :-/
I really hope people don't let their guard down.
They went on an open source charm offensive a few years ago. "Oh, we've turned over a new leaf" etc.
A lot of people believed that they'd had a legitimate change in heart because of the change in strategy.
More realistically, Linux had driven them into near irrelevance in the server market and just pushed them from "extinguish" or "extend" to "embrace".
Their dubious anti-Linux tactics via leaning on OEMs in the desktop market remained more or less unchanged.