> It's obvious now that "Open" was a hook. It killed off all the competitors like Atom or Brackets and even mostly killed off other editors like Sublime. The on

> It's obvious now that "Open" was a hook. It killed off all the competitors like Atom or Brackets and even mostly killed off other editors like Sublime. The only question now is the final goal of their lock-in. The only real observation is that all of "the new MS that loves devs" was just more of the classic Microsoft we've known for decades. There's never a question of Microsoft's goal. It is always to destroy your choice to use non-Microsoft products. They pour resources into a "free" product that I will admit is good. It has to be, to kill all competing products over many years. Then when there is no reasonable competing product, they switch it to a paid product. I can remember when Windows 3.1 was released. I did development on it at Ford, to emulate a vector graphics terminal. I remember when Office was bundled with Windows for free; now it is 1/3 of their revenue. I have seen Microsoft repeat this game over and over. History truly does repeat itself.