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Bishwas Bhandari

Yes sir, I do agree with you. Microsoft is now contributing on open source theme, GitHub is owned by Microsoft and private repos are now free. Private repos are huge huge relief for me.
And yes, Microsoft may have done some money hungry things to survive in the market.

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leob • Edited

Good points, yes I know they've bettered themselves, especially under Nadella, but their dirty business practices of the past were a disgrace. "Survive" is a bit of an euphemism, I think you're a bit too kind and too forgiving towards them - they really had a total stranglehold on the market, a.k.a. a "monopoly", and were abusing it heavily.

Anyway, all of that is old history, and probably not that many people care lol, but I like the truth to be told.

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Bishwas Bhandari

I guess, it's because I am a GenZ and don't know a lot about the history.

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leob

Yep I thought so ;) if you'd know the history you'd be a lot more critical of our Microsoft "friends", they did some truly atrocious stuff

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