> Stop shitting on them. Pointing out and remaining aware of their very relevant past is not 'shitting on them' so .... no? > We won the war. They’re mending their ways. "We" (?) are either there or not. The…
Relative to what, though? Departmental budgets or MSFT's gross revenue?
>So they should start losing money? I was unclear; their revenue streams are still overwhelmingly comprised of proprietary tech. Darwin and AOSP are massive compared to the toys MSFT is throwing over the Linux wall.…
All that withstanding, nobody but developers buy Microsoft products because of VSCode.
This also means the majority of OSes operating on a Microsoft proprietary cloud arch are based around a kernel whose governance is becoming increasingly influenced by - you guessed it - Microsoft.
Companies are not people. They are not owed any second chances, olive branches, benefits of doubt. Nothing is stopping any of MSFT's OSS-Forward ideas from being brought up by capable people in other contexts. >…
VSCode, exFat, and .Net core are not enormous. Their revenue streams are enormous and remain as close to their chest as ever.
> Stop shitting on them. .... no? > We won the war. They’re mending their ways. "We" (?) are either there or not. The half-measures of mending continue at the pace of their choosing. > Even 10 years ago this would have…
> Stop shitting on them. Pointing out and remaining aware of their very relevant past is not 'shitting on them' so .... no? > We won the war. They’re mending their ways. "We" (?) are either there or not. The…
Relative to what, though? Departmental budgets or MSFT's gross revenue?
>So they should start losing money? I was unclear; their revenue streams are still overwhelmingly comprised of proprietary tech. Darwin and AOSP are massive compared to the toys MSFT is throwing over the Linux wall.…
All that withstanding, nobody but developers buy Microsoft products because of VSCode.
This also means the majority of OSes operating on a Microsoft proprietary cloud arch are based around a kernel whose governance is becoming increasingly influenced by - you guessed it - Microsoft.
Companies are not people. They are not owed any second chances, olive branches, benefits of doubt. Nothing is stopping any of MSFT's OSS-Forward ideas from being brought up by capable people in other contexts. >…
VSCode, exFat, and .Net core are not enormous. Their revenue streams are enormous and remain as close to their chest as ever.
> Stop shitting on them. .... no? > We won the war. They’re mending their ways. "We" (?) are either there or not. The half-measures of mending continue at the pace of their choosing. > Even 10 years ago this would have…