Microsoft Kills Linq to SQL

This article is pretty well linkbait. Following up to the actual post by the MS team reveals Linq to SQL isn't being killed--they're just choosing Linq to Entities as their preferred solution.

"We are listening to customers regarding LINQ to SQL and will continue to evolve the product based on feedback we receive from the community as well," is not remotely the same as killing Linq to SQL.

This reminds me of the furor that came up when some bozo claimed that MS was dropping OpenGL support in Vista, when in fact all they were doing was retooling their driver architecture... there was a tremendous amount of misinformation about that floating around, and naturally most people just gravitated toward the anti-MS version without bothering to find out whether or not there was any truth behind it.

That's what happens when you buy into a proprietary technology. The proprietors can change it as they wish.

At least in open source you can fork the project.