It’s because they have pivoted to subscriptions on office, ads on windows and general data harvesting.
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Damarus@feddit.org 1 year agoI don’t think that, as Microsoft hasn’t done a lot (any?) of that stuff in recent years.
Theoriginalthon@lemmy.world 1 year ago
7dev7random7@suppo.fi 1 year ago
Projects are receiving issues about WSL compatibility issues. So this directly influences FOSS projects.
They would go as far as put bounties for PRs just to get more hold in the community. Just swapping to a permissive license appears to be enough to get contributions.
They can keep their secrets; I won’t ever check this repository out.