For recent events, you could look at stuff how VSCode is supposedly Open Source and yet fully ridded with spyware and also propietary plugins...
On github, having MS at the realm has certainly affected too how DMCA's and such are deal with vs the old Github.
As for DMCA, I think you have to talk to the government officials about how badly it works.
Are there any other recent events that I'm forgetting that make MSFT the biggest enemy of FOSS?
How are they an enemy?
If anyone else remembers this incident and can link to a source that'd be great for my sanity.
Maybe similar to this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17214257
I do have a love-hate relationship with MS, but I don't love the fact that they own 80% of my stack (Yes, I know, my choice) between TypeScript, VSCode, NPM, Github, etc..
Also on VSCodium, it only fixes the telemetry bullshit, the custom LSP Plugins that microsoft keeps for themselves or whatever are not available there. so If you want to use for example copilot or other -microsoft official- plugins you can't do so on VSCodium
Also let's add the whole Github Copilot WhiteWashing non-FOSS proprietary code into anyone to steal. Basically breaking the current status quo in favour of the megacorps that can steal it all and respect no licenses
That's a great example, actually, because they'd like you to think that VSCode is open source... but then if you actually use that you can't access a rather lot of the most useful extensions, which is a completely artificial limitation that appears to be there only to prevent people from actually using any fork.
This incident was Casey Muratori raising an issue about Windows Terminal performance:
https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/issues/10362
https://twitter.com/cmuratori/status/1522471966929653761
https://hn.algolia.com/?dateEnd=1687287343&dateRange=custom&...
Not really. It was a good point but it wasn't clearcut.
Of course I don't think the VScode situation is great but it's far from being "the biggest enemy of FOSS".
That's why I was wondering if there were any other recent events. I've not been keeping track, truly.
https://www.itprotoday.com/windows-78/inside-story-how-microsofts-open-source-code-theft-was-discoveredI wouldn't trust MS with my business as an indie dev, that's all
And I wouldn't trust their -true- intentions on FOSS beyond how their incentives align currently with the space
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Microsoft
What surprises me is that the tech crowd is so ready to bend over for one of the worst companies on the planet in the software domain. These are the very same people that abused the legal system in every way that they could in order to slow down the adoption rate of open source. They are still doing this today but quietly, for instance by incentivizing municipalities and other government layers to use their software (for free if necessary) just to stop adoption of equivalent open source solutions.
What specifically?
I'm not trying to be difficult, but linking to a lengthy Wikipedia page is not an argument. From a quick glance a number are old, and a number are just non-issues (e.g. "Mono patent concerns", which was just some baseless FUD mentioned by Stallman once almost 15 years ago), but I didn't read the entire page. "Incentivizing municipalities and other government layers to use their software" could just be normal business practice (or something shady – much depends on the details).
As far as incentivizing municipalities is concerned, they are currently in the docket for anti-trust violations just like they were in the past. Historically MS would swoop in on any governmental org in Europe that would successfully implement FOSS solutions instead of MS based stuff. Not to make money, but just to maintain dominance, another anti-trust play. And they never stopped doing that.