It's been over 25 years. It's really time to let this one go.
Making the best developer tools for free or at least close to free is another form of extinguish and they have just done that with OpenAI and GitHub.
The bastards! Making and releasing high quality developer tools. We have to stop them! Has MS actually EEE'd anything in the last 25 years? I legit can't think of a single formerly-open thing that's been Microsofted via their own extensions.
Microsoft can afford to maintain all these offerings for free whilst competitors suffocate and struggle to compete with their paid offerings.
You can't compete with free, especially when there is a company who can afford to run and host the best tools for free for a long time.
A free, quality product is great. We all benefit from that.
The concern is the last "extinguish" part at the end.
But there is no reason for Microsoft to shut down GitHub, or VSCode or whatever.
Consumers just get to have a great free product.
You have missed the big picture.
> The concern is the last "extinguish" part at the end.
The methods are different but the strategy is the same. The 'Embrace' and 'Extend' part is openly visible. The extinguish part however is less obvious:
'Extinguish' in this case, refers to competitors being unable to compete with 'free' (as in beer) or close to free products that offer more and are 100 times better than their competitors paid offerings.
> But there is no reason for Microsoft to shut down GitHub, or VSCode or whatever.
Not my point. The competitors / alternatives are the ones that will shut down, over Microsoft branded ones.
There was a reason why Atom was shut down over VSCode. The same as to why the creator of Appget could not compete with Microsoft's winget and then appget shut itself down.
The same will happen with OpenAI's exclusive deal with Microsoft. Majority of users using OpenAI's API over the competitors and alternatives paid offerings will end up shutting down.
> Consumers just get to have a great free product.
Exactly. Microsoft was clever to target developers as the new source of customer. Windows already won the desktop.