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There are definitely cases where the community wins out because it delivers better quality - Newtonsoft.JSON eventually was recommended by MSDN documentation instead of the built-in .NET JSON APIs and the new in-development API is being written by the author of Newtonsoft.

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That is true and that was a pretty big shift and together with embracing open source more, going all in on Azure, supporting Linux etc. there has been changes and that has reflected somewhat in the community as well.

I also think people being used to npm in the frontend will make them more likely to start looking around nuget for things that can support their use case better than what exists by Microsoft.

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