Microsoft Trying To Cripple Its Own Open-Source Project

Microsoft is trying to remove a feature called “Hot Reload” from Dotnet, saying it is something that should only be available through Visual Studio <https://www.theregister.com/2021/10/22/microsoft_net_hot_reload_visual_studio/>. Trouble is, this is the (supposedly) Open-Source version of Dotnet. And you do not take away useful features from Open-Source projects. You can do that to proprietary products, where the users have no choice but to put up with it. As of this writing, the commit that removes the feature has already been merged, but a follow up request to revert that change, while gathering a lot of support, has not been accepted into the official code base yet. As one of the commenters says: “This is the PR that is truly going to decide .NET is really an OSS or not!”. This is just one in a long line of incidents <https://www.theregister.com/2021/10/18/net_foundation_gnome/> casting doubt on the independence of Dotnet as an Open-Source project.
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Lawrence D'Oliveiro