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All this shows Microsoft has never changed. That is why I am and always have been suspicious about WSL and Microsoft's influence on the Linux Foundation.
by jmclnx 3y ago
All this shows Microsoft has never changed. That is why I am and always have been suspicious about WSL and Microsoft's influence on the Linux Foundation.
- bachmeier 3y agoMicrosoft hasn't changed, but the opposition has. Back in the old days it was easy to hate Microsoft. They were doing as much damage as possible to Linux and open source. Their rivals today are just as bad as they are - maybe worse.
- BiteCode_dev 3y agoOracle enters the chat.
- hospitalJail 3y agoI want to hate Google, but they still seem to be less evil. Free Excel/Word/PPT(sorry libre office for forgetting about you), Android/Chrome is still FOSS and I use their degoogled versions, they contributed hugely to AI. But yeah, the FAAMG is not something to be worshiped. Heck, its a red flag if you are a genuine fan of one of these companies.
- matwood 3y agoMS did a pretty good job changing their reputation until they foisted the abomination knowns as Teams onto the world.
- tracker1 3y agoIMO Teams is pretty meh... most of them are... and while I like most of Slack better, it is what it is. Teams fits in for those tied to other MS services, Azure AD, O/M365, etc. I do wish Teams. would put a little more effort on their Linux client though. I know it's just an electron wrapper, but still. A little testing and supporting the non-enterprise users would be nice. While I appreciate parts of what MS has done, it's a massive corporation with different divisions doing things that are much more open and others much more closed off. I'm sure there's lots of in-fighting between the differing approaches.
- manuelabeledo 3y ago> Their rivals today are just as bad as they are - maybe worse. I might agree if we look at each one of them individually. The issue with Microsoft is that their product offer has a breath that most competitors cannot even start to fathom. Specifically, Sony Entertainment may be a competitor in the console gaming space, but Microsoft gaming divisions go further, and are tightly integrated with others, e.g. DirectX, Windows, XBox, Azure.
- BiteCode_dev 3y agoAnd don't forget their new IDE in the cloud move with VSCode. I guarantee once they got enough devs locked in their cloud to write softwares, the spanking will start. And once again, the victims will act all surprised.
- hospitalJail 3y agoEveryone cheers VSCode, but I'm happy with Spyder now that it has VIM. Maybe its time to fork VSCode seriously if people want to use it forever.
- tikkabhuna 3y agoAlready done: https://github.com/VSCodium/vscodium https://github.com/VSCodium/vscodium
- doodlesdev 3y agoI prefer VSCodium builds over proprietary Microsoft ones any day of the week, but: > This is not a fork. This is a repository of scripts to automatically build Microsoft's vscode repository into freely-licensed binaries with a community-driven default configuration
- lapser 3y agoThere's nothing wrong with that. VSCode will certainly have a lot more development that a fork would ever see. So the best thing to do here is simply build VSCode with all proprietary stuff removed.
- hospitalJail 3y agoThe plugins are the real value, and those are built behind the M$ fortress.
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- rochak 3y agoSwitching away from proprietary editors to Vim is the best decision I took in my life.