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Re: Visual Studio Code is now open source

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Post by jevgeni » Tue, Nov 24, 2015, 6:11 PM UTC

simoncion wrote: post #393

jevgeni wrote: post #361

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's interesting that you don't make assumptions about future "evil" behaviour of their competition.

Why is it interesting? The topic is Microsoft and Microsoft's past and present behavior. While it is next to impossible to truly consider a topic in a vacuum, it is very common practice to focus on a particular single topic or set of topics when engaging in discussion. This practice tends to promote productive discussion by allowing the conversants to momentarily disregard issues that are largely or completely unrela…

So, where's the criteria how the subject is constrained? Why are we talking about Microsoft and not the particular responsible Microsoft business division?

Re: Visual Studio Code is now open source

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Post by thewhitetulip » Thu, Nov 26, 2015, 12:43 PM UTC

alexro wrote: post #171

thewhitetulip wrote: post #164

Never thought I'd run Visual Studio on my linux machine!!! Thank you Microsoft!

Not to nitpick, but VSCode is not the same as Visual Studio

Yes, it is visual studio code, technically it isn't visual studio but still.

Re: Visual Studio Code is now open source

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Post by simoncion » Mon, Dec 07, 2015, 8:06 AM UTC

jevgeni wrote: post #401

simoncion wrote: post #393

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why is it interesting? The topic is Microsoft and Microsoft's past and present behavior. While it is next to impossible to truly consider a topic in a vacuum, it is very common practice to focus on a particular single topic or set of topics when engaging in discussion. This practice tends to promote productive discussion by allowing the conversants to momentarily disregard issues that are largely or completely unrela…

So, where's the criteria how the subject is constrained? Why are we talking about Microsoft and not the particular responsible Microsoft business division?

> Why are we talking about Microsoft and not the particular responsible Microsoft business division?

Because -as the US DoJ inquiry showed us- Microsoft's anti-competitive behavior has been a strategy that was pursued because of directives from C-level employees.

Historically, it hasn't been low-to-mid-level minions spontaneously deciding to do great violence to the computer industry, it has been directives (either express or implied) from the top that caused them to behave in this way.