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So much for “Microsoft ❤️ open source”
They don’t.
While we’re on the subject, neither does Google.
Nothing Microsoft ever does should be trusted or relied upon. They are a bad actor who always operates in bad faith and should be treated as such.
Still better than Google though.
When someone says that Microsoft is NOT an ally to free software on /r/opensource, they’re almost ALWAYS downvoted. Then their prized company pulls this shit.
Op article is from 2020.
This Microsoft article https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/maui/what-is-maui is dated 30 January 2023 and still uses the MAUI brand name, so Microsoft have not fixed their mistake
This should be a slam dunk case of copyright infringement for the original Maui project. Isn’t this the sort of thing EFF (EFFE?) should be fighting in the courts on behalf of small open source projects?
From the article (from original Maui’s response):
a UI framework that as of today is still the first result in Google when searching for the term “Maui UI framework” but that due to the might of GitHub (another Microsoft subsidiary) and Microsoft own website (specifically, their blog) SEO that will change over time.
Exactly this has happened. On both Google and DuckDuckGo (partially Bing?) all the top results are Microsoft Maui, you have to scroll down for original Maui
also got confused; this was posted 3 years ago but Hot sort seems to be pulling up a bunch of old posts
This article is from 2020.
This was posted three years ago. My guess is that the recent replies made it show up in “hot” again. I see a lot of old posts with new comments recently.
Embrace Extend Extinguish
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This is LITERALLY their Embrace Extend Extinguish model. WSL (so in a way, Linux), GitHub, NPM, probably way more that I can’t think of right now will probably all suffer the same fate. They likely never changed their view on open source (remember when Steve Ballmer said that the GPL/Linux is horrible?) despite how many times they say they’ve changed it.
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Why not? They’re already owning npm, don’t they?
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in other news: water is wet
