VsCode, Typescript, Github, NPM. And Microsoft doesn't even have to maintain the main runtime, Google does. What a clever strategy!
Let's not forget electron, atom and a few other things...
NPM Is Joining GitHub
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#422Earlier quoted context omitted.
Big leap from "servers cost money" to "a package manager requires a commercial entity". How are other language ecosystems and package managers operating, many without private companies attached, when they too are serving millions of requests a day?
Which package manager has the scale of JS and isn't hosted by a commercial entity?
apt, pacman, pip, and others. You can have large scale systems that aren't dependent on a commercial entity.
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#423Earlier quoted context omitted.
I get this in principal, but when I go to GitHub without being logged in it just feels... well, like Microsoft.
How so? Not disagreeing with you, just curious.
I would guess mentions of enterprise and businesses all over with a contact sales button.
Some old pages are enterprisey and didn't know they pushed a desktop app for so long lol.
I loved that they explained how the name github came to be in one of the older landing pages.
2020 - https://github.com
2019 - http://web.archive.org/web/20190317031034/https://github.com...
2018 - http://web.archive.org/web/20180317031034/https://github.com...
2017 - http://web.archive.org/web/20170317031034/https://github.com...
2016 - http://web.archive.org/web/20160317164519/https://github.com...
2015 - http://web.archive.org/web/20150317031034/https://github.com...
2012 - http://web.archive.org/web/20120317031034/https://github.com...
2008 - http://web.archive.org/web/20081211021557/http://github.com/
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#424Microsoftie here — throwaway for obvious reasons. Microsoft doesn’t do everything right but the GitHub acquisition has honestly gone better than I ever expected. Rather than forcing GitHub to adopt Microsoft centric policies, Microsoft has adopted more GitHub stuff, especially from a product POV. GitHub still runs as a separate company (different logins and health care and hiring systems) with its own policies and po…
I’m not sure how you made out Microsoft to be anything but a benevolent ruler here, “throw away for obvious reasons” seems like a weird thing to say
Re: NPM Is Joining GitHub
#425Microsoftie here — throwaway for obvious reasons. Microsoft doesn’t do everything right but the GitHub acquisition has honestly gone better than I ever expected. Rather than forcing GitHub to adopt Microsoft centric policies, Microsoft has adopted more GitHub stuff, especially from a product POV. GitHub still runs as a separate company (different logins and health care and hiring systems) with its own policies and po…
I’m not sure how you made out Microsoft to be anything but a benevolent ruler here, “throw away for obvious reasons” seems like a weird thing to say
They’re likely not supposed to be commenting on things like this as an active employee of the company in question.
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#426Earlier quoted context omitted.
Just for reference, vscodium is not a fork to remove Microsoft's code - it is just a build tool for the open source repo as explained in the README. "When we [Microsoft] build Visual Studio Code, we do exactly this. We clone the vscode repository, we lay down a customized product.json that has Microsoft specific functionality (telemetry, gallery, logo, etc.), and then produce a build that we release under our license…
> Just for reference, vscodium is not a fork to remove Microsoft's code - it is just a build tool for the open source repo as explained in the README. When a certain build configuration enables major spyware features, and that is the build configuration for the released version by the first party, and another build configuration (that is not released by the first party) disables those major spyware features, the dist…
When the first line of the repo you yourself linked says ‘It’s not a fork’, I believe we will take it instead of your semantics about it.
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> now that Wine exists Wine is 26 years old.
Agreed, could have worded it better. Now that Wine is good enough to run most of Windows software and backed by Valve via its Proton initiative.
Hasn't Wine been good enough for at least 10+ years? Furthermore, how does being backed by Valve actually be of any significant value? I've heard of this argument for a couple of years now and I'm still not convinced (not that I follow Wine development that closely).
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Want to try something fun? Install any browser in iOS and do a test. Then do the same test with Safari. Now ponder why they are exactly the same no matter which browser you install.
If you're referencing Apple's mandate that WebKit be used as the engine for all iOS web rendering, then yes, that's a poor policy ostensibly made in the name of security. Not sure if that's what your point is, though.
Can you imagine how much legal trouble microsoft would be in if they blocked alternative browsers in windows? Simply providing a single default was too much.
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I know what 'bait and switch' means, just like I also know what FUD means. Next you'll call them Micro$oft. Come on now.
Are you aware of what Oracle is doing to its customers right now?
Come on, Oracle was always predatory. You always knew exactly what would happen to anything they acquire.