Are they losing trust though? Many young developers don't remember the height of the EEE days in the 90s and 00s when MS was trying very hard to extinguish free software. These are just stories to them.
Now, MS runs the world's largest source code sharing service and many of these young developers launch proprietary MS code editing tools daily.
We old timers always knew what the end game was, but young people lack the context and so many are already hooked on MS now. It's not obvious to me that they will ever care enough to switch no matter how hostile MS behaves.
> young people lack the context and so many are already hooked on MS now. It's not obvious to me that they will ever care enough to switch no matter how hostile MS behaves.
Not all of us. I had just barely started being willing to trust Microsoft again, and they've repeatedly shown themselves to be hostile since the initial "Github is cool! And WSL! And VSCode!", enough is enough.
I've read the Halloween documents, I know where this goes.
Young free software advocates exist - I'm one. I know about EEE and agree we're in a sorry state.
I have a feeling MS will continue to dominate due to network effects and vscode/wsl being a nice enough experience. It'll take them resting on their laurels or some great act of user hostility to change this status quo.
I remember. It’s also hard to turn down WSL and VSC. They are wonderful products and I’m fairly certain I’m sadly contributing to all this nonsense but I also need to get my day job done and pay the bills.
One day large corporations I hope will allow Linux. But at least mine it’s windows or macOS and apple is far behind the wsl/vsc curve right now and apparently doesn’t have any motivation to catch up. They rely on “you have to use Xcode” right now which is unfortunate.
Now, MS runs the world's largest source code sharing service and many of these young developers launch proprietary MS code editing tools daily.
We old timers always knew what the end game was, but young people lack the context and so many are already hooked on MS now. It's not obvious to me that they will ever care enough to switch no matter how hostile MS behaves.