I'm a .NET developer, and honestly, this is the worst part of being one; we get good third party tools, we get promises from Microsoft about them being all about open source, and Microsoft constantly move in and obliterate all the competition; there are countless examples out there. A few years ago we had a great amount of choice around DI containers for example - they filled an obvious gap Microsoft had given no solution at all for within their framework despite its many years of existence. Then one day they come along with a DI container that is far inferior to the existing offerings, but it's the default on a new project... the whole community immediately stays with this default option despite the obvious inferiority. Today I never find any modern .NET apps using anything other than this default, and I still think it's inferior to what we had.
Microsoft have always adhered to 'Embrace. Extend. Extinguish', and it is alive and kicking today in every area of open source they touch, be it this, GitHub, Windows Subsystem on Linux... they have no real interest in open source, except to crush it as best they can.
Microsoft have always adhered to 'Embrace. Extend. Extinguish', and it is alive and kicking today in every area of open source they touch, be it this, GitHub, Windows Subsystem on Linux... they have no real interest in open source, except to crush it as best they can.