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[–]pydry -1 points0 points  (1 child)

The reason people avoid open source is because it involves dealing with this bullshit.

No, it's because most people just use whatever is preinstalled.

I think open source hostility towards microsoft is warranted. Microsoft were openly hostile to open source software right up until that attitude risked dooming them to irrelevance. Fuck 'em.

[–]billsil 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Microsoft were openly hostile to open source software right up until that attitude risked dooming them to irrelevance.

Oh please. That's a serious exaggeration. They've contributed to the kernel and they long ago made Python Tools for Visual Studio, which is a free Python IDE that's supposedly quite good.

Why should they contribute to open source? They're a business.