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Re:GitHub is no longer independent at Microsoft after CEO re... by riffraff on Monday August 11, 2025 @01:28PM (#44866931)
Not OP, but I do.

The '90s/00s era of people hating on M$ and picturing them as the Borg had left room to the 10s/20s of MS being "friendly" and releasing open source and free things (typescript, vs code, core.net, wsl, work on python etc) and not completely screwing up acquisitions like GitHub or Mojang.

Windows became adware, and office became some crappy online thing, but _microsoft_ had became nicer and gained goodwill.

This seems to have started evaporating in the last year or so.

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Re:GitHub is no longer independent at Microsoft after CEO re... by coliveira on Monday August 11, 2025 @01:59PM (#44867313)
Only people without any sense of reality believed this. Being exploitative is a core feature of MS, since its foundation. It's like believing a serpent won't bite you. They're in the middle of the embrace, extend and extinguish cycle for open source technologies.
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Re:GitHub is no longer independent at Microsoft after CEO re... by pjmlp on Monday August 11, 2025 @02:04PM (#44867386)
Yep, that is more of less the point I was making.
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Re:GitHub is no longer independent at Microsoft after CEO re... by owebmaster on Monday August 11, 2025 @01:53PM (#44867228)
They didn't become cool, some people just let themselves get fooled by what they were offering for free.
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Re:GitHub is no longer independent at Microsoft after CEO re... by anthk on Monday August 11, 2025 @02:32PM (#44867727)
Windows was already adware with WIndows 98. Active Desktop anyone?
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