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Linux and its ecosystem is under the most aggressive EEE cycle from Microsoft in its history. Just look at wsl, github, python,...

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I would agree that the first two Es are happening. I'm just not sure how they would accomplish the Extinguish step from there.

Microsoft's strategy as I interpret it is to embrace Linux as the server OS most will choose, but to stay relevant double down on providing the development and deployment experience. .NET Core makes their flagship backend framework available on Linux, and WSL makes that case easy to test from the comfort of your Windows computer, using Visual Studio. The same Visual Studio that just so happens to integrate well with MSSQL and Azure.

If you aren't an enterprise, there is Visual Studio Code for the languages you like, with even bigger emphasis on making Linux development a smooth experience on a Windows computer, along with extensive Azure integrations if you want them.

The third E seems to be evolving into coexisting directly into Profit.

Decisions and investments made over time while using a cloud platform is its own stickiness.

They learned from the community adoption of Apple products that the majority only cares about POSIX CLI and not really Linux as such.

If they cared, they would be buying Linux OEM hardware instead of giving money to Apple.

Wait, what is MS doing with python?

Making it faster:

https://www.theregister.com/2021/05/13/guido_van_rossum_cpyt...

Perhaps they are referring to Pylance (Microsoft's proprietary Python tools for VS Code)? https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/k0s8qw/vs_code_devel...

IIRC there's a similar problem with VS Code's official C++ and C# tools.

But let's be honest with yourself

GitHub is incredibly good tool, unparalleled even.

And so is wsl, they have good value. But it's undeniable that they are used as part of eee cycle

GitHub is toxic though, it’s focused on social justice these days. Meritocracy is dying and everyone rejoices, probably because they can’t bring merits.

Has GitHub stopped violating our licenses already?

http://www.mirbsd.org/permalinks/wlog-10_e20170301-tg.htm

Not really. It's easy, but the feature set is rather limited compared to what KDE (the FOSS project I'm closest to) has.

5 years ago, sure, but GitLab?

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