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Do you also post "Take it away from $OWNER" every time your open source software breaks?
What antitrust issue does my open source software have?
What does antitrust have to do with the GitHub services downtime?
GitHub is down again
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Re: GitHub is down again
#52You can literally watch GitHub explode bit by bit. Take a look at the GitHub Status History; it's hilarious: https://www.githubstatus.com/history .
Someone should make a timeline chart from that, lol.
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#53pretty clear that companies like microsoft are actually terrible at engineering, their core products were built 30 years ago. any changes now are generally extremely incremental and quickly rolled back with issue. trying to innovate at github shows just how bad they are.
It's not just MSFT, it's all of big tech. They basically run as a cartel, destroy competition through illegal means, engage in regulatory capture, and ensure their fiefdoms reign supreme.
All the more reason why they should be sliced and diced into oblivion.
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#54Re: GitHub is down again
#553 outages in 3 months straight according to their own status history. https://www.githubstatus.com/history
I wonder who left the team recently. Must be someone bagged with shadow knowledge. Or maybe they send devops/devs work to another continent.
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#56Take it away from Microsoft. Not sure how this isn't an antitrust issue anyway.
That's on every individual that decided to "give it" to Microsoft. Git was made precisely to make this problem go away.
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#57Take it away from Microsoft. Not sure how this isn't an antitrust issue anyway.
Not sure how having downtime is an anti-competition issue. I'm also not sure how you think you can take things away from people? Do you think someone just gave them GitHub and then take it away? Who are you expecting to take it away? Also, does your system have 100% uptime?
Companies used to be forced to sell parts of their business when antitrust was involved. The issue isn't the downtime, they should never have been allowed to own this in the first place.
There was just a recent case with Google to decide if they would have to sell Chrome. Of course the Judge ruled no. Nowadays you can have a monopoly in 20 adjacent industries and the courts will say it's fine.
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#58Take it away from Microsoft. Not sure how this isn't an antitrust issue anyway.
At its core antitrust cases are about monopolies and how companies use anti-competitive conduct to maintain their monopoly.
Github isn't the only source control software in the market. Unless they're doing something obvious and nefarious, its doubtful the justice department will step in when you can simply choose one of many others like Bitbucket, Sourcetree, Gitlab, SVN, CVS, Fossil, DARCS, or Bazaar.
There's just too much competition in the market right now for the govt to do anything.
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#59Good thing we have LLM agents now. Before this kind of behavior was tolerable. Now it's pretty easy to switch over to using other providers. The threat of "but it will take them a lot of effort to switch to someone else" is getting less and less every day.
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#60Looks like AI replacement of engineering force in action.
You're absolutely right! Sorry I deleted your database.
I can help you restore from backups if you will tell me where you backed it up.
You did back it up, right? Right before you ran me with `--allow-dangerously-skip-permissions` and gave me full access to your databases and S3 buckets?