I find it really telling that the jokes and panicking about Microsoft possibly buying GitHub all involve references to Clippy, Windows 3, Visual Basic, and other things from 20-year-old Microsoft. It’s almost as if recent MS wouldn’t give you good fodder.
In the 90s their relevance was as a threat to basically everything open. Nowadays they're only relevant to enterprise, gamers, and ppl who voluntarily use their stuff.
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And developers, and IT shops, and millions of small and medium businesses. Again, if you really think Microsoft is irrelevant then you really are ignorant. They just bought fucking GITHUB dude.
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@RichFelker is saying it’s been *possible* to ignore Microsoft since the 90s, which I’d agree with: you’ve been able to stay on Linux/Mac/etc. if your business plan made sense. You’re saying MS done a ton and stayed relevant in many industries since then, which is *also* true. -
I think the very fact that Microsoft *has* been ignorable to many developers (but not to all!) is the exact reason some are panicking. They only remember 90s MS, and 90s MS buying GitHub would indeed be awful. The MS of .NET, VS Code, WSL, etc. on the other hand could be great.
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