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0 pointsrvz3y ago0 comments

Yes. 25 Years and Microsoft has gotten much smarter with EEE.

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.

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Spivak3y ago· 3 in thread

> Making the best developer tools for free or at least close to free

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.

rvzOP3y ago

The methods are different but the strategy is the same. They have used this strategy with Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL), VSCode + extensions, Winget, Microsoft Teams, GitHub, and now OpenAI.

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.

stale20023y ago

You are still missing the point.

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.

linhns3y ago

Nothing is free. If it's free, you're the product

ocdtrekkie3y ago

Nothing in tech is true for a quarter of a decade. Especially not when the guy who said this left the company twenty years ago. It's time to put this one to rest.

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