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> MS has managed to pacify even the strongest FOSS advocates I'm not sure that's the case. I think the strongest FOSS advocates gave up on Microsoft decades ag
by Karellen 2y ago
> MS has managed to pacify even the strongest FOSS advocates
I'm not sure that's the case. I think the strongest FOSS advocates gave up on Microsoft decades ago, and just don't engage with anything they put out. If MS release source-available stuff, strong FOSS advocates don't peep because they've not even looked at it. Why bother - it's Microsoft. If someone else does it, well, the FOSS advocates still had some hope that what they didn't wouldn't be terrible, so there's space for those hopes to be dashed.
- tonyhart7 2y agoYeah, I think this is the problem that this (people) are, expecting another corporate entity to do the same thing is actually hilarious. hey, we welcome microsoft to countribute to FOSS, but expecting to behave like another is laughable given the alternative