> I worry the pendulum will swing back the other way So do I, but only moderately so. They're using open source projects to smuggle in proprietary things in th

> I worry the pendulum will swing back the other way So do I, but only moderately so. They're using open source projects to smuggle in proprietary things in their official builds (VSCode), collect data (dotnet telemetry) and get people into their proprietary offerings (Azure, LiveShare). This is arguably not very nice, but the business case is obvious and they're pretty much only doing the same thing as the other big players. Additionally, since the core offerings really are open, people are free to build more user friendly versions of them (VScodium). Strategically I think they're slowly entering the "Extend" phase. Let's not let them extinguish, ie don't start depending on their proprietary offerings. Getting it into peoples' heads probably requires EEE education.