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by amadeusw 3977 days ago
While I agree with you that Microsoft was getting in the way of the ecosystem, I believe that since last year this is no longer the case.

I tried, and couldn't find exact date when Microsoft officially endorsed Newtonsoft.Json as THE way to handle json in .net. But I believe that this happened just last year. Look, in 2011 Scott Hanselman blogged about this library [1] and the comments (esp. the first one) are pretty interesting. Here, .NET tried to solve a problem and community did a better job, and just recently Microsoft recognized it.