100% Agreed. The really aggressive "fuck Microsoft" rhetoric is going to burn a lot of these startups over the long haul. It's incredible to me the number that still seem to be operating in an ideological bubble that was originally created 2 decades ago.

A lot of Serious Business happens on top of Microsoft technology right now, and the companies responsible for tending to solutions in this space are made extraordinarily uncomfortable by this kind of aura being given off by vendors like Gitlab.

Can Gitlab really afford to alienate double-digit % of its TAM in favor of this ideological position? It seems like they are already having financial difficulties based upon other recent articles.