[tluyben2]

As someone who suffered through MS and Oracle (Oracle directly killed one of my companies; MS did a lot of collateral damage) in the 80s and 90s, they have been more than nice for the open source community after Balmer. I hope they rectify this one.

[rbanffy]

While they have been supporting open source (because, if they didn’t, they’d become irrelevant in no time), there’s nothing that says they aren’t just playing a long embrace, extend, extinguish game here. They may never reach the extinguish part because they can’t find a way to lock users in, but, still, they have interests that are still completely opposite to the welfare of an open source community.

[tluyben2]

It seems unlikely to me: developers have power these days and their voice, threads like this, appear on radars of management. Even if some pencil pusher 'decided' something, there is no real way out in my opinion. This will probably be reversed and they really have issues because of the .net foundation fall out: as much as I wish to be 25 again, this is not the 90s anymore.

[rbanffy]

I agree. They can lock in some users, but not that many. Their monopoly power is gone and it seems gone for good.