Comment by LeFantome
2 years ago
I am wondering if you can share a few words your skepticism around Microsoft and Open Source.
You sound pragmatic and I might learn a lot from your views.
Corporations are not people and I still see some people within MS do some dumb stuff. That said, the company overall seems to have embraced Open Source quite fundamentally and genuinely.
First off, most of .NET is firmly and truly Open Source at this point. Azure is deeply in bed with Linux. Microsoft Edge shows that MS has learned that they can add value without having to take on the entire codebase.
Well it's mainly a personal choice, but for example I pointed out dark patterns with VSCode here with regard to telemetry
i.e. according to VS Codium, they are not able to fully disable telemetry
https://lobste.rs/s/mt2p8g/google_groups_has_been_left_die#c...
And the fact that basically all software is filled with dark patterns these days, so you might be able to say Microsoft is far from the worst offender
But personally I would choose to invest my time elsewhere
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I would probably rather use commercial software with telemetry enabled as long as it was disclosed, rather than "open source" with intentional confusion around the issue