All this shows Microsoft has never changed. That is why I am and always have been suspicious about WSL and Microsoft's influence on the Linux Foundation.
I guarantee once they got enough devs locked in their cloud to write softwares, the spanking will start.
And once again, the victims will act all surprised.
Maybe its time to fork VSCode seriously if people want to use it forever.
> This is not a fork. This is a repository of scripts to automatically build Microsoft's vscode repository into freely-licensed binaries with a community-driven default configurationTheia[1] is a bit closer to a hard fork. They even try very hard to avoid saying outright they're just a rebranded VS Code, using euphemism such as "Theia embraces many of the design decisions [of VS Code] and even directly supports VS Code extensions."
Free Excel/Word/PPT(sorry libre office for forgetting about you), Android/Chrome is still FOSS and I use their degoogled versions, they contributed hugely to AI.
But yeah, the FAAMG is not something to be worshiped. Heck, its a red flag if you are a genuine fan of one of these companies.
I might agree if we look at each one of them individually.
The issue with Microsoft is that their product offer has a breath that most competitors cannot even start to fathom. Specifically, Sony Entertainment may be a competitor in the console gaming space, but Microsoft gaming divisions go further, and are tightly integrated with others, e.g. DirectX, Windows, XBox, Azure.
I do wish Teams. would put a little more effort on their Linux client though. I know it's just an electron wrapper, but still. A little testing and supporting the non-enterprise users would be nice.
While I appreciate parts of what MS has done, it's a massive corporation with different divisions doing things that are much more open and others much more closed off. I'm sure there's lots of in-fighting between the differing approaches.