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I may have done a bad job articulating what I meant. My main point was that I feel (based on like 2nd and 3rd knowledge so could be totally wrong) that this had

I may have done a bad job articulating what I meant. My main point was that I feel (based on like 2nd and 3rd knowledge so could be totally wrong) that this had as much to do with public pressure as it did with a number of well known (and certainly many not well known) dotnet and Microsoft team members who fought for an OSS feature that they had been developing and promoting for most of this year.

pritambaral 5y ago
> ... a number of well known (and certainly many not well known) dotnet and Microsoft team members who fought for ... That wasn't enough. I'm sure they fought for it before the public did. It took the public calling out Microsoft's duplicity for them to change face. I'm sure the insiders' voices helped, but they weren't adequate. IOW, Microsoft will absolutely do it again, if they think they can slip it past the public. Outrage can't be a driving force for very long, and they know that.