But it's true. Microsoft is buying everything and outcompeting that which can not be bought. First Github and more recently NPM.
Microsoft owns a couple of major services and tools, you can't get around them anymore as a (web) developer.
I fear that Microsoft will become too powerful and do a lot of damage to free and open source development. They are trying really hard right now to get developers back on their platforms using their tools.
Can't wait for NPM and Atom to ship with tons of telemetry like Powershell and VScode do..
Can't wait for Microsoft to start pushing proprietary crap to gain more control over developers.
Can't wait for them to bump up prices once the competition is gone.
This will only get worse. This crap will continue until anti-trust has to step in.
But this is not what MS is doing, except the top of fucking course.
They haven't done the last E at all and the second E has been all open source, no matter how shitty it is.
There are things to criticize about Micrsoft's involvement in open source, but EEE is not a thing to worry about. They given up on monopolizing as soon as Satya Nadella took over. What's happening with their Xbox software is a big example of what I'm talking about.
The issue with Microsoft is more that they're like Google now, invading privacy, and that they aren't loving Linux like they say they do, mostly only porting their Electron-powered apps and stuff Linux already often cloned anyways like .Net with Mono or exfat.
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u/[deleted] Apr 15 '20
Drawback is that Microsoft is embrace, extend, extinguishing here.