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mirzap ◴[] 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 ◴[] 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 ◴[] 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 ◴[] 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 ◴[] 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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deciplex ◴[] No.36408066[source]
He gave you a recent event and you conceded the point then suggested he use something else.

And, DMCA is bad law but many companies make it worse in their overzealousness to "comply" with it.

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gtirloni ◴[] No.36408943[source]
> He gave you a recent event and you conceded the point then suggested he use something else.

Not really. It was a good point but it wasn't clearcut.

Of course I don't think the VScode situation is great but it's far from being "the biggest enemy of FOSS".

That's why I was wondering if there were any other recent events. I've not been keeping track, truly.

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tough ◴[] No.36409856[source]
I think there's enough recent events pointed by other commenters to at least be able to say with certain grade of truth to it that Microsoft isn't the biggest friend of FOSS as much as they pretend to be with stuff like WSL or whatever
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1. gtirloni ◴[] No.36412022[source]
The discussion is around MSFT being the biggest enemy though.