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You'll have to walk me through your logic on that again. How is repeated exposure more likely to increase positive opinion?
Suppose it isn't more likely, that it is just random. All Microsoft has to do is pick the one article that has a positive opinion at the top and promote that one.
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Remember that _GitHub used to be profitable_. Then they took $250m in investment and became unprofitable.
And that was three years ago. So what’s the point of outrage now?
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Corporations aren't people. If you change the leadership and change employee incentives, it might as well be a different company. Sure there's cultural inertia... but incentives trump culture every time.
> If you change the leadership and change employee incentives, it might as well be a different company. Exactly. Which is why the idea of "trusting" a corporation, or treating them like you would a human being on any level, is ludicrous. They're a plane crash and a stock dip from becoming a totally different entity.
[1] I thought it was just a cliche until I saw it happen to someone. She went through some things and upended her whole life.
At the end of the day, Microsoft, a huge billion dollar corporation, bought GitHub because it thinks it'll help its bottom dollar. And sure, of course I can see the business sense in the deal for both parties, but it's yet to be seen if it'll actually improve things for end users.
Sadly, being bought out by microsoft completely removes their neutrality. Whether they will abuse the trust of having complete and total access to every private repo and all of the code inside or not remains to be seen. But I certainly don’t view GitHub as neutral site anymore. Sadly, from a business perspective, GitHub just isn’t rational when they’re owned by Microsoft. Even less so when we’ve seen how blatantly evil they have been in the past. For us, at least at this point, it will be better to bite the bullet now and move sooner rather than gamble. As someone else here said, even good community oriented companies are only a rough quarter away from shady business practices.
I truly hope they don’t kill off GitHub, it’s been a truly amazing space and I really hope it works out for the devs who work there — the ones I know are amazing people and true believers, I really do hope this works out well for them, they deserve it. Now off to start the long arduous process of migrating everything to GitLab :/
This is a wake up call. Too many things are relying on Github right now. Microsoft was part of the PRISM program. If Microsoft shares SSL certs with NSA they could do MITM attacks. What if in some very specific cases you download dependencies from GitHub and they give you a different version with malicious code? It's the NSA. They could be smart enough to only deploy those attacks on production servers were nobody is…
They now have access to private projects so can use that to help create exploits to closed source products that are hosted on GitHub or use it to create their own products or patents.
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I can understand those concerns, but what can they do to convince you they have changed?
* Drop DirectX for Vulkan * Drop MSVC for Clang or GCC * Drop Edge for Firefox or Chromium because they love open-source, right?
* Direct3D being open-sourced would have removed the need for Vulkan.
* Many compilers are good for the ecosystem.
* Many browsers are good for the ecosystem.