Didn't Microsoft basically immediately clarify that the new policy is only meant to target developers with no affiliation with a project who are lazily repackaging open-source apps and trying to make a quick buck?<p>Edit: Yeah, see <a href="https://www.theregister.com/2022/07/08/microsoft_store_open_source_webkit/" rel="nofollow">https://www.theregister.com/2022/07/08/microsoft_store_open_...</a>:<p>> In response, Sardo, who oversees the Microsoft Store, insisted Microsoft is just trying to prevent abusive store listings, like app clones.<p>> "We absolutely want to support developers distributing successful OSS apps," he said. "In fact there are already fantastic OSS apps in the Store! The goal of this policy is to protect customers from misleading listings."<p>> Sardo said Microsoft would review the policy language to make sure its intent is clear.
Did anybody actually read the article? It is clear FUD.<p>It's just a minor policy change on the Microsoft Store which says you can't create an "app" for a free open source product as if it's your own. So, you can't create an app of Ubuntu Linux and charge $5 for every download on the Microsoft Store.<p>Reasonable. Sound.
Looking at some of the other headlines from this guy's Substack (e.g. "Linus threatens to punish developers by including Rust in the kernel") he seems like a total crank and not worth taking seriously.
not quite yet. Wait til they're selling you your own code back. I'm thinking something having to do with "software BoM" and OSen that can only run stuff from certified sources.
This is a great example of it happening in the .NET world:<p><a href="https://github.com/OmniSharp/omnisharp-vscode/issues/5276" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/OmniSharp/omnisharp-vscode/issues/5276</a>
Yeah...no. I've been saying for a while that the current Windows kernel is not long for this world. I'm willing to be convinced otherwise, though pablum like this Schlubstack article is no place to start.
He’s right you know. Microsoft is getting very creative with their extinguishing on the open-source community.<p>This is just one of many ways of doing it. They are getting so clever at it, not many have seem to have noticed but instead played along and thought it was all fine, until the complaints finally came in.<p>More examples of recent ‘extinguishing’ or typical EEE: [0] [1] [2]<p>[0] <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29686076" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29686076</a><p>[1] <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28829936" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28829936</a><p>[2] <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31944138" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31944138</a>
FOSS store required immediately<p>how much does mircrosoft have to do with steam beyond having an app?
how could valve be made amenable to serviceing linux platforms in general, in addition to curating ported games?
i know these guys were MS at one time but the past tense may be a benevolent condition.<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valve_Corporation" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valve_Corporation</a><p>What other candidates for FOSS "store" exist beyond repositories? I dont think github is in that pool anymore.<p>if valve provided a linux onboarding platform, in addition to games and repos, that just may have beneficial consequences for FOSS and valve
What a bullshit. By this account Paint.NET also can't ask for money in the MS Store because it is also software that is otherwise generally available for free.
As someone who there's a lot of programming with C# and loves it, are there any good alternatives?<p>This plus the stuff they're doing with Minecraft recently has me very much wanting to get away from them. They've made it clear that they will abuse any power they have.<p>However, none of the alternatives seem that good. Python is slow, dynamic, and a pain to write large projects in, JavaScript is reliant on typescript and TypeScript is Microsoft.<p>Go is Google. Enough said.<p>Rust seems cool, but I'm not really on the system's side of programming so it's not super suited to the sort of things I want to do.<p>Is the only alternative Microsoft doesn't have their fingers in right now Kotlin? It's going to be expensive, but jet brains even provides the IDE so I can get away from VS code.