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quite amazing that (a) Microsoft basically bought open source with GitHub (b) and are now trying to fuck it up so hard people leave
And that's why I Codeberg now. I even give a few bucks every month to pretend I'm paying a subscription.
Someone should come up with a catchy alliterative name for this tactic of incorporating competing ideas in Microsoft product family, augmenting them with their own proprietary crap and pulling the rug after achieving lock-in. Maybe call it AAA for "Adopt, add on, annihilate".
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Sadly not a new thing for Microsoft. The term exists https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguish
whoosh
lol you don't have to be a dick about it
They call it BOGU