I hate Windows and dislike a lot of Microsoft products, but I think we’re way past Microsoft being the bad guy. They kinda like Linux now, and probably do more good than bad for it. There are much worse companies in tech, I think Microsoft’s worst crimes as of late is creating Teams and being boring.
Please look up “Embrace, extend, extinguish”. VScode is open-source for now, but all the microsoft extensions you need to turn it into an IDE have DRM on them and microsoft puts work into trying to make those extensions not work with VScode forks.
WSL is the same thing. They start by embracing linux and soon they’ll start installing MS crap into the guest system or shipping their own distro that’s filled with it. This is the extend part.
The final goal is to extinguish desktop linux and make everything WSL to be able to track it all and harvest shitloads of data.
I hate Windows and dislike a lot of Microsoft products, but I think we’re way past Microsoft being the bad guy. They kinda like Linux now, and probably do more good than bad for it. There are much worse companies in tech, I think Microsoft’s worst crimes as of late is creating Teams and being boring.
Please look up “Embrace, extend, extinguish”. VScode is open-source for now, but all the microsoft extensions you need to turn it into an IDE have DRM on them and microsoft puts work into trying to make those extensions not work with VScode forks.
WSL is the same thing. They start by embracing linux and soon they’ll start installing MS crap into the guest system or shipping their own distro that’s filled with it. This is the extend part. The final goal is to extinguish desktop linux and make everything WSL to be able to track it all and harvest shitloads of data.