onlyonemac wrote:
Microsoft making .NET open source is bad because it's Microsoft's way of luring users away from Mono and thus killing off Mono, leaving users with a .NET runtime that Microsoft can still effectively maintain full control over (despite it being open source).
What exactly is the difference between open source code written by Microsoft and open source code written by anyone else? You have the exact same freedoms, and large corporations giving their users those freedoms is exactly what Stallman wants.
onlyonemac wrote:
Rusky wrote:
Let me ask you something, onlyonemac: how many years and products does Microsoft have not to embrace-extend-extinguish for you to accept anything they do as less than the devil's handiwork? Or are you just a religious zealot who will shift the goalposts anytime Microsoft changes, hating Microsoft just for the sake of hating Microsoft?
Perhaps they need to actually start not "embrace extend extinguish"ing products for a start. I still see that they are "embrace extend extinguish"ing things - why else would they contribute to a
direct competitor of one of their own products, and support a rival operating system on their cloud hosting platform?
...that's not "embrace, extend, extinguish." That's "embrace"
without "extend" or "extinguish." Ye old triple-E was when they embraced a
standard (like, say, HTML), extended the standard
incompatibly (like, say, with IE6), and then when everyone started using their incompatible stuff the compliant versions were
extinguished (like, say, Netscape). Contributing to their "direct competitors" (with Azure hosting and open-source .NET) is the exact opposite of that.
Now, you could argue that WSL and Visual Studio might start doing that, but I doubt they will, because the point of WSL is to make it easier to write software to run on Azure and embedded systems, where you're not using WSL but plain-vanilla Linux. If Microsoft starts adding
proprietary extensions, you'd have a point, but they haven't done that in ages and show every sign of contributing the source to any "extensions", so for now you have nothing to complain about.
And I also note that you dodged my question. You're just digging yourself deeper in your conspiracy-nut hole, unless you can give us some real criteria for when you'd no longer consider Microsoft's literal every move evil by default.