Interesting insights into Microsoft's "Opensource strategy"...
I used to think @GitHub Codespaces would help popularise @Gitpod but now realize it is the other way around. Microsoft can step in at any moment to create legal crises ghuntley.com/fracture/
"The way Microsoft forks open-source communities is by releasing Visual Studio Code extension updates that make their proprietary offering the default once they have managed to capture enough adoption"
I used to think @GitHub Codespaces would help popularise @Gitpod but now realize it is the other way around. Microsoft can step in at any moment to create legal crises ghuntley.com/fracture/
A disturbing read, but still feels very much spot on.
I used to think @GitHub Codespaces would help popularise @Gitpod but now realize it is the other way around. Microsoft can step in at any moment to create legal crises ghuntley.com/fracture/
VS Code's internals might be open source but only Microsoft's official version is allowed to connect to the extension marketplace or use Microsoft's language servers...
This was not the case with Atom.
I used to think @GitHub Codespaces would help popularise @Gitpod but now realize it is the other way around. Microsoft can step in at any moment to create legal crises ghuntley.com/fracture/
@GorkemErcan maybe not too late to stop @eclipse_che going down the same road?
I used to think @GitHub Codespaces would help popularise @Gitpod but now realize it is the other way around. Microsoft can step in at any moment to create legal crises ghuntley.com/fracture/
Wow
I used to think @GitHub Codespaces would help popularise @Gitpod but now realize it is the other way around. Microsoft can step in at any moment to create legal crises ghuntley.com/fracture/
Is this article saying that MS is still essentially playing the embrace, extend, extinguish game of the past?
I used to think @GitHub Codespaces would help popularise @Gitpod but now realize it is the other way around. Microsoft can step in at any moment to create legal crises ghuntley.com/fracture/