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Sigh. I don't even know how to start with this one. I'm a "useful idiot" because I'm interested in making PowerShell work as a proper Debian package, or because I might look into what's required to get it into FreeBSD?

Seriously?

MS is not a monolith, it's made up of lots of different people with different ideologies and different goals.



I think the parent comment's point, with which you are likely to disagree but haven't fully addressed, is that even the best intentions of developers can only serve the ends of the less noble segments of Microsoft.


Fair enough. I think that falls into the category of "what if someone does something evil with my code?", to which I don't really have an answer.




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