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There's an xckd for that :) The one with 12 competing standards going to 13 competing standards, or something like that.
by nottorp 11mo ago
There's an xckd for that :)
The one with 12 competing standards going to 13 competing standards, or something like that.
- latexr 11mo agohttps://xkcd.com/927/ https://xkcd.com/927/
- AmbroseBierce 11mo agoPretty sure Microsoft is exponentially bigger than 99% of the library authors out there, and add to that the giant communication channel that GitHub gives it over developers, so the analogy breaks pretty fast.
- nottorp 11mo agoOr it's worse, because there's a good bunch of devs that don't trust MS by default?
- AmbroseBierce 11mo agoEven the most hardcore GNU supporters don't think Microsoft would add a supply chain attack to such initiative, or that their software security is worse than the average NPM (popular) package maintainer.
- nottorp 11mo agoJust the lock in and telemetry are dangerous :) And they're company policy as opposed to honest mistakes like security vulns.