That all is a lot of nonsense, this is an instance of Microsoft paying an open source developer to maintain open source. Yes, they actually do that sometimes.
It is the cold, brutal truth that is happening right now in the free software / open source ecosystem. Totally accurate.
> this is an instance of Microsoft paying an open source developer to maintain open source.
You might as well put binary blobs in a GitHub repo and call it 'open-source' or / and have telemetry baked in stealing our usage data since the term 'open-source' not only misses the point, but it is quite frankly meaningless at this point.
But we all knew that the tech-bros have hijacked the point of open-source whilst the free software movement have failed to stop all of it.
The cold brutal truth is that open source developers need jobs too. That has always been the case.
>You might as well put binary blobs in a GitHub repo and call it 'open-source'
But this has not happened.
>and have telemetry baked in stealing our usage data
This is not related. I don't think there is any open source or free software that will ever stop that. They actually don't want to stop it. They would consider stopping that to be a violation of the OSD "no discrimination against fields of endeavor" criteria or the FSF "freedom zero".
It is the cold, brutal truth that is happening right now in the free software / open source ecosystem. Totally accurate.
> this is an instance of Microsoft paying an open source developer to maintain open source.
You might as well put binary blobs in a GitHub repo and call it 'open-source' or / and have telemetry baked in stealing our usage data since the term 'open-source' not only misses the point, but it is quite frankly meaningless at this point.
But we all knew that the tech-bros have hijacked the point of open-source whilst the free software movement have failed to stop all of it.