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160 points MattIPv4 | 1 comments | 20 Jun 23 17:14 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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mirzap ◴[20 Jun 23 17:38 UTC] No.36407575[source]▶
I'm incredibly pleased about Microsoft's acquisition of Github, as I notice visible improvements every passing month. Considering Gitlab's pricing, I wonder why anyone would abandon GitHub Team or Enterprise plan in favor of Gitlab. Gitlab's costs are exorbitant, and they resemble Atlassian products, with an overwhelming number of features that are rarely used, cluttering the interface and diminishing the overall user experience.
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jacquesm ◴[20 Jun 23 17:46 UTC] No.36407684[source]▶
I'm not. The biggest enemy of Linux/FOSS should never have been in charge of the biggest repository of open source software.
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gtirloni ◴[20 Jun 23 17:48 UTC] No.36407736[source]▶
> The biggest enemy of Linux/FOSS

Have they outdone Oracle? Impressive! :)

On a serious note, is your comment based on historical or recent events?

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tough ◴[20 Jun 23 17:50 UTC] No.36407796[source]▶
For the historical you have all the EEE tactics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguis...

For recent events, you could look at stuff how VSCode is supposedly Open Source and yet fully ridded with spyware and also propietary plugins...

On github, having MS at the realm has certainly affected too how DMCA's and such are deal with vs the old Github.

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gtirloni ◴[20 Jun 23 17:53 UTC] No.36407842[source]▶
The VSCode situation could be improved but isn't there VSCodium to remediate that?

As for DMCA, I think you have to talk to the government officials about how badly it works.

Are there any other recent events that I'm forgetting that make MSFT the biggest enemy of FOSS?

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1. yjftsjthsd-h ◴[20 Jun 23 18:36 UTC] No.36408516[source]▶
> The VSCode situation could be improved but isn't there VSCodium to remediate that?

That's a great example, actually, because they'd like you to think that VSCode is open source... but then if you actually use that you can't access a rather lot of the most useful extensions, which is a completely artificial limitation that appears to be there only to prevent people from actually using any fork.