[Brian_K_White]

Nothing has changed except that it's even worse now than before, and the venue or arena changes every few years (os to developer tools to office to cloud etc). vscode or .net core or whatever you think is so valuable does not make MS your friend any more than giving you free IE did. Come the fuck on. It is beyond ignorant to try to make this argument. (or it's perfectly consistent with having a financial interest)

I guess if there are always new 20 year olds just discovering something, that must mean there are also always new 15 year olds that haven't discovered it yet, and 80 year olds that have gone Dawkins and lost what they had, and the just plain ignorant or unobservant with no real excuse.

[naasking]

No real open source contributor thinks any corporation is "their friend", whatever that means. And yet, it is undeniably true that being a Linux foundation member and contributor, producing and maintaining one of the largest programming language ecosystem and runtimes currently in use, and running the largest open source friendly source code repositories for free, would have been unthinkable under Balmer or Gates' Microsoft, and if you think otherwise, you should look in the mirror for that ignorance you mentioned.