MS owns Typescript and NPM and Azure and LinkedIn. I know you meant programming on Windows, but even if Windows disappears, many of us will owe our job to Microsoft.

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VorpalWay 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Dont forget they own github too. The vast majority of open source software is on there these days.

Yes there are other options: gitlab.com, some project specific gitlab instances (freedesktop for example), forejo / codeberg, and the Linux kernel is off doing it's own thing with mailing lists instead. I even come across code on SourceForge every now and then still. But all of these are super niche.

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solarkraft 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

They own Typescript? I wasn’t aware that they control the organization, but that ought to be easy enough to fork. NPM is a bigger one, but also not too huge. Azure is only used by people who already have Microsoft/Windows buy-in.

	▲	chuckadams an hour ago \| parent [-]
		They created TypeScript, and maintain it now. It's not exactly a business for them, no one is buying "TypeScript Enterprise" subscriptions. It's all under the Apache License 2.0 and certainly big enough that if they started pulling anything untoward, it would see a fork. Sometimes Microsoft produces an unalloyed good, they're not a monolith.

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SinkingRock 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

And VS Code, and Github...

	▲	tosti 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Soooo... Not anything we couldn't miss.