Anil DashIn roughly the past half-decade, Microsoft went from nowhere to overwhelming dominance of text editors with VSCode, ownership of majority of code hosting (and open source dev) with GitHub, ownership of the dependency stack used by most devs with npm, control over the most popular single language with TypeScript, and is trying to position copilot and ChatGPT as inevitable parts of the future dev process. Nothing negative for the ecosystem will come of this, as the last half century teaches us.
El Diablo Roboc 😈🤖@anildash Microsoft has been pretty decent compared to other big companies like Meta, Twitter and Google. Their strength lies not in being open source, but on being reasonably open for everyone to use. It could be better, of course. It could be a lot worse considering it's position of hegemony.
Cardozograph@ElDiabloRoboc @anildash Yeah, it could be worse. But how long can they hold out against shareholder pressure to squeeze more bucks out?