The same applies to GitHub and VS Code, fwiw. It’s the same surveillance-based slow boil.

If you think Windows is bad for the world, stop driving eyeballs to their same strategies in the f/oss world as well.

> GitHub and VS Code

It's impressive how these Microsoft-owned products became fundamental to my daily software needs. I know I have to find better alternatives, move to using Codeberg/Forgejo, Spacemacs/Neovim..

And programming languages? I like TypeScript, and Microsoft has been a good steward of the project. Similarly with Go and Google. I also rely on VC-funded language runtimes, frameworks, libraries. That's a risk I sometimes question. Ideally I would shift to using FOSS altogether, the whole stack top to bottom.

Even the hardware I'd prefer "open source" if possible.