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> I know MSFT technologies get a lot of hate here, but ASP.NET Core is pretty awesome. Given how bad an actor they were I guess some people have a hard time fo

• teh_klev 7y ago
  Sure, but on posts where the comments head downhill lubricated by this trope, often the commentators were still in kindergarten during this time. There's a cargo-cult mentality when it comes to accusing M$ of Embrace, Extend and Extinguish. Sure it happened but the folks leaving these comments weren't around at the time working as pro-software developers. I was, it was annoying, but the world didn't implode, and the law kicked in and did mostly its job. So big deal and yawn. MS has a new management, it was "infiltrated" by the right folks in the early to mid 2000's who educated MS from inside and began to set MS on the right track. It takes time, like steering an oil tanker. But MS are a capitalist corporation, just like all the others, they will all do some evil at some point in time on behalf of their bottom line and shareholder dividends, if they think they can get away with it.