The fact that so many people so firmly believe that MS is one of the good guys now is just bewildering to me. Like were they not alive in the 90s? This is classic embrace, extend, extinguish, as you say.
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The only thing Microsoft is investing in is marketing to fool people into thinking they’re your friend. Remember that Copilot is automated open source license violation at scale. They’re building a tool to take your work, without crediting you, so others can use it without compensating you.
This is “love” in the same way an abusive relationship is “love”.
Insofar as “FOSS” is a specific, delineated, reified thing you can point to and describe, it doesn’t reject profit and capitalism when devs use licenses that enable corporations to use their work for free. That’s enablement, not rejection.
Yes I would, because then it’s easier to shoot him in the head.
Steve Ballmer also throws chairs at employees.
Yes. I’m strongly in favor of noncommercial clauses in licenses. Because fuck capitalism.