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> There’s a bit of Silicon Valley cred, too, thanks to its acquisitions of LinkedIn, the professional social network, and GitHub, the software code repository.

I would have thought open sourcing so much of it's framework, vscode, and typescript would have had a greater impact.

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> I would have thought open sourcing so much of it's framework

I have a pedantic correction here.

Instead of open sourcing the .NET Framework they wrote a new opensource framework (named .NET core) that is very similar to their closed source framework. Microsoft is currently supporting and expanding both frameworks.

FYI a lot of the .NET Framework is also opensource https://referencesource.microsoft.com/

It's shared source, not open source. It isn't even complete enough to compile.

FYI, only way forward is core. Microsoft doesn't really invest much in older net and related (for example PowerShell 5). There may be fixes here and there but are mostly security.

It defies logic to support 2 frameworks, one of which is WAY BETTER then the other and x-platform.

And only few days after this comment, is official:

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/introducing-net-5/

.NET Core is getting MASSIVE adoption in the large midwest city I work in. I expect .NET Framework to go on life support in a couple years.

The ability to build and run applications on Linux is something even old school .NET shops are excited about.

I remain skeptical of some of the company's intentions and practices, esp. regarding privacy and user rights/freedom, but VSCode and TypeScript have truly earned the respect of the community.

For me personally, these two open-source projects have greatly influenced my view of Microsoft for the better.

acquiring LinkedIn brings cred...?

This article is written by some tech journalists. Do you actually expect them to have heard about vscode/typescript?

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