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spandrew on Jan 6, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: GitHub is sued, and we may learn something about C...

I'd like to know more about how MSFT qualifies for the moniker "they're the greatest enemy of free and open source software". From my understanding they've invested in many open web resources previously (like jQuery).

jrm4 on Jan 7, 2023 | [–]

I did say "at one time," not necessarily now.

But if you've been watching, literally the only reason they don't hate it now is because they lost the open source v. proprietary battle.

cyral on Jan 6, 2023 | [–]

And they opened sourced .NET

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