While the McDonalds kitchen analogy is kinda applicable, the theory of malicious lock-in is just plain silly.
Did it ever occur to you that just maybe Microsoft's customers are big corporations that routinely employ the programmer equivalent of french fry managers? And maybe, just maybe, Microsoft's products are highly successful at achieving the benevolent goal of engineering a product for their target audience?
As a former hard-core .NET developer and Microsoft employee -- who hasn't run a Windows box at home since nearly two years before quitting Microsoft -- I agree that most .NET developers are kinda lost in a Microsoft-crafted echo-chamber la-la land. But I don't agree that it's got anything to do with nefarious intentions, rather it's got to do with social dynamics and product/market fit.
Did it ever occur to you that just maybe Microsoft's customers are big corporations that routinely employ the programmer equivalent of french fry managers? And maybe, just maybe, Microsoft's products are highly successful at achieving the benevolent goal of engineering a product for their target audience?
As a former hard-core .NET developer and Microsoft employee -- who hasn't run a Windows box at home since nearly two years before quitting Microsoft -- I agree that most .NET developers are kinda lost in a Microsoft-crafted echo-chamber la-la land. But I don't agree that it's got anything to do with nefarious intentions, rather it's got to do with social dynamics and product/market fit.