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So this is just the old "open source sustainability" problem. Open source has always been largely the work of people funded by hostile corporate interests. The
by geofft 5y ago
So this is just the old "open source sustainability" problem.
Open source has always been largely the work of people funded by hostile corporate interests. The very words "open source" came from hostile corporate interests because "free software" scared their finance people.
And people never cared about FOSS tooling in the past. A whole lot of open source developers use Windows and macOS. There was a time when Sublime Text was as popular as Visual Studio Code. .NET gained its popularity while it was closed source, while Miguel de Icaza was reimplementing it as Mono.
(Frankly, there was a time - which only ended a couple years ago - when Visual Studio proper, not Code, was not even freely available, never mind open-source-ness.)