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It highlights an impact of concentrated wealth on technological development in general, the third option: If a competing technology can't just be ignored, or crushed, the final veto is to simply purchase it.
Which is what M$ has been doing for the last 1/2 decade due to the ever increasingly crappy nature of their OS product.
To slightly modify the article's conclusion: no one should host anything on github...
The reason I don't use Github is Microsoft's hatred stance on open source. Anyone remember Microsoft calling Linux a "cancer"? Or Microsoft threatening open source developers for violating 200 patents? Or their official stand where they whould threaten and fear Linux devs? The secretly funded lawsuits against Linux? They even threatened lawsuits at companies for just using Linux. This company is rotten by the executi…
A lot of that was valid twenty years ago, and they certainly burned many bridges. Now there's VSCode, TypeScript, WSL, Dapr and .NET, all open source.
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> The nature of Git means Microsoft can't really do much harm. Famous last words
Especially when a huge portion of GitHub is not Git (wiki, discussions, issues, ci...)
Issues and PR comments are another story though
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Are we sure "MS was bad" is the right thing to say? Are they now behaving ethically and responsibly? If not, maybe it's very valid to be critical of our over reliance on such an actor, specially when alternatives are present.
They are a large and wealthy corporation, with a lot of proprietary software and service products. It may appear, at times, that their interests align with the interests of end users or open source contributors, but that is at best a fleeting illusion; the moment they figure out how to make more money by screwing people, that's exactly what they'll do. That's why Recall is coming back to Windows, despite a huge backl…
I was mad they forced me to upgrade to 11 for new WSL features, and now refuse to let you set up 11 without a Microsoft account.
I would suspect that if something is exclusively on GitHub, then it's not important. There are many important Free Software projects such as GNU and Linux, and they've always stayed away from GitHub.
I would suspect that if something is exclusively on GitHub, then it's not important. There are many important Free Software projects such as GNU and Linux, and they've always stayed away from GitHub.
I always get sad when I read articles like "new open source trend!" that are done by scanning github. All the important stuff is not on github. The open github is mostly used by unfinished test projects.