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> IBM has a very different model for supporting developers than Microsoft does with MSDN.

Interesting comparison, because when I was teaching myself to code in the early 00s, that's how I perceived Microsoft.

MSDN was a paid subscription, and the tools you needed to write MS software were also paid.

Hence me ending up forming a career on open source software, and a generation of programmers who still turn their nose up at Microsoft languages.

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Except .. they're using VSCode, GitHub and Typescript, probably still on a Windows laptop.

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None of those things were around in the early 00s.

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Well, Windows was, but that's not the point.

The parent comment noted that there was a generation who shunned Microsoft because of their corporate misbehavior. More recent generations of programmers have forgotten why that was, and Microsoft has, once again, successfully established a dominant position in the development ecosystem.

I fully expect that position to be leveraged for profit, and that would see a new generation, 25 years later, who will never trust Microsoft again.

Most things are cyclical.