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> It's interesting how entities are societally not allowed to change for the better. Corporations make changes that suit them first, users second. Microsoft "l
by hericium 4y ago
> It's interesting how entities are societally not allowed to change for the better.
Corporations make changes that suit them first, users second. Microsoft "loves" open source now, as they own one of the biggest dev-centric social media platforms.
> What will it take for you to actually believe that they may genuinely be changing?
They are changing into what makes more money in the long run.
- SketchySeaBeast 4y agoThat's not necessarily also a positive change in general. I don't know if "they are going to be evil, just wait!" is a useful point of view when you could be taking advantage of their not being evil today.
- lakomen 4y agoWell sorry if I'm not buying the good Samaritan act. There are still many bad things they do, like pressure schools into teaching only about MS products in "computer" classes.
- SketchySeaBeast 4y agoThat's fine, but it has an opportunity cost. I came out of a dotnet post-secondary school but I'm now currently working on a React/Node/GraphQL team, I don't see it as a negative in the way you're portraying it here. I think C# is a great starting language both because of the great tool support and the sort of medium level of abstraction.
- rnd0 4y ago> I don't know if "they are going to be evil, just wait!" is a useful point of view when you could be taking advantage of their not being evil today. You can do both, at least as a user. Take advantage of the positive resources (github, etc) while being aware of or even supporting alternatives as well (god help us if we ever lose GCC and CLang becomes a monopoly).
- SketchySeaBeast 4y agoTotally agree with that, no reason to not take advantage of other environments as well.