Hi, I'm Mike. I'm a husband, father, son, and brother. I spend most of my time coding, especially front-end projects. Currently working on an Android/iOS app using Flutter.
I, personally, think Microsoft is taking a step in the right direction. I understand, from what I have read, there is some perception bias here. Microsoft, the big, bad, corporation against the world crushing everything in its path. While much of that may be true of Microsoft in the past, we do not read into the future. Yes, hindsight is important in looking at trends. What is to say that Microsoft might learn a few things from the open-source community? I am cautioning some to put on the brakes of judgment until we see things unfold. I think, looking forward, this might be a good thing for developers and the like. Why shouldn't we play a cautious "wait and see" approach? Today is a new day.
I've been a professional C, Perl, PHP and Python developer.
I'm an ex-sysadmin from the late 20th century.
These days I do more Javascript and CSS and whatnot, and promote UX and accessibility.
Why shouldn't we play a cautious "wait and see" approach?
Because Microsoft has been incredibly damaging in the past, and many of their efforts focused on official policies (i.e. not just speculation or paranoia on the part of the media) like "embrace, extend, extinguish" where they push the image of themselves being nice until it's too late to stop them.
I, personally, think Microsoft is taking a step in the right direction. I understand, from what I have read, there is some perception bias here. Microsoft, the big, bad, corporation against the world crushing everything in its path. While much of that may be true of Microsoft in the past, we do not read into the future. Yes, hindsight is important in looking at trends. What is to say that Microsoft might learn a few things from the open-source community? I am cautioning some to put on the brakes of judgment until we see things unfold. I think, looking forward, this might be a good thing for developers and the like. Why shouldn't we play a cautious "wait and see" approach? Today is a new day.
Because Microsoft has been incredibly damaging in the past, and many of their efforts focused on official policies (i.e. not just speculation or paranoia on the part of the media) like "embrace, extend, extinguish" where they push the image of themselves being nice until it's too late to stop them.
I agree with that