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It is important to remind people of this, because they imagine that MS is integrating open source projects like git, linux, and others for the goodness of their
by coliveira 1y ago
It is important to remind people of this, because they imagine that MS is integrating open source projects like git, linux, and others for the goodness of their heart. It's well know that this is just step 1 of embrace, extend, and extinguish. Next step (underway) is to add many features that will work only under the MS ecosystem and finally declare those original tools as legacy that should not be allowed in corporations.
- madeofpalk 1y agoI don't think anyone is under the impression that Microsoft is integrating with projects like git or linux out of the goodness of their heart. They do it for the exact same reason anyone does - thats were users/customers are, and they want to make money from them. This isn't some evil conspiracy, it's just normal boring ways to build products for people.
- coliveira 1y ago> just normal boring ways to build products Microsoft is never looking for normal, boring ways to build products. A software company does't get much ahead thinking like this. They're using their old and successful strategy of embracing, extending, and extinguishing.
- HPsquared 1y agoA little from column A, a little from column B.
- josephcsible 1y agoThey even do that with ISO C. They claim that portable functions like strlen are deprecated and insecure, and their recommended replacements are MSVC-specific.