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Which is meaningless. Embracing open source software is a _good_ thing.

Extending open source software / standards with proprietary additions is the only aspect which is deserving of criticism.

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I feel like that's already happening with the integration of the issues tracker and the CI/CD actions into github. A lot of newer developers just see github as git instead of realizing there is git outside of it that can be run locally without needed a cloud service backing it. They might not even see a reason why they would want to have control over their own code hosting until microsoft starts squeezing them hard.

That's all fun and games until you find out the final stage is extinguish.

Extinguish isn't a thing you do, it's the intended consequence of step 2.

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