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maybe that was true back then, but now? microsoft has vscode, copilot, chatpgpt ownership, a head start on LLM search, azure, github. It feels like some of those products have some taste/culture and if not, theyre still good products that people seem to be enjoyibg

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Half of the stuff you listed they just bought and stuck their names on.

yes im aware they bought github and others on this list. would you say since github has only gone since downhill? I wouldnt at least.

I’m confused why you think you can attribute the taste and culture of Github to Microsoft, since you seem to know that they did not create it. I’d say Github’s text editor has gone downhill since Microsoft bought it and reassigned the maintainers to a slower and clunkier editor.

> I’m confused why you think you can attribute the taste and culture of Github to Microsoft

i didnt.

microsoft has owned github for 4 years at this point. In your opinion, have they degraded githubs culture in that time and if so by how much and how? Personally, from the outside looking in, github and their tools have gotten better. Though of course, that couldve still been the case if github retained its original leadership, i just doubt it.

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