[daeken]

> Except, this isn't so much openness as it is an underhanded attempt at migrating more developers to their proprietary platforms.

Shame on them. They shouldn't be contributing software at all if it won't work on every platform. For all they know, I might want to connect to SQL Server from Node.JS running on my Commodore 64, but they don't provide the native code compiled for the 6510.

[melling]

Is there a name given to your type of argument? The idea is to simply reply with an an absurd extreme counter example. People use it all the time. Perhaps it's some sort of extrapolation argument?

[huggyface]

Reductio Ad Absurdum (e.g. "for Microsoft to support anyone but themselves they thus must support every fringe platform, including those popular twenty years ago"). It's a particularly boring tactic of response and never adds anything to the conversation.