https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguish OP has a reasonable concern, Microsoft has had a troubling past history, and embrace extend extinguish hasn't gone away, just look at the office file standards shenanigans. It's certainly the case that the purchase of github is intended to create a platform that has network effects (making it hard to leave). Microsoft has proven many times that their participation in FOSS tends to come with a catch or an intent to subvert.

yes, he needs to distract it just as trump needs to.

Fear Peter Thiel and his gangbuster crew of excel homies and consultants Don't get me wrong, they're enablers of authoritarianists, but let's not give them too much credit. Magic? 🫧🧐🪠

I am very interested in politics, but not on any kind of social media. The whole purpose of political discourse on sites like Twitter is to foster uninformed, extremist political posturing with no constructive or interesting discussion.

Because that worked so well for South Korea

A carrot perhaps... Or a very big stick.

Tech execs when the shortage hits: I just had a brilliant idea! Let's just give untrained junior vibe-coding engineers the power of senior engineers, and even more AI tools. Problem solved forever, bonus please!