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Important open source projects should not use GitHub (2020)

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68 points bitbasher | 2 comments | 15 Apr 25 02:18 UTC | HN request time: 0.849s | source
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tloriato ◴[15 Apr 25 07:31 UTC] No.43689972[source]▶
23:59: “No one donates money to OSS”

00:00: “You must leave the world’s biggest software website to go to this random Germanic non-profit because MS was bad 20 years ago”

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ricardoev ◴[15 Apr 25 07:37 UTC] No.43690011[source]▶
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.

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1. jclulow ◴[15 Apr 25 07:43 UTC] No.43690042[source]▶
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 backlash some five minutes prior. It's why the code to Windows and Office will never be open source. It's why the SSH remote plugin for Visual Studio Code is, for some reason, a proprietary binary that MSFT refuses to build for platforms that are not economically relevant to the Azure business unit (e.g., BSD or illumos systems).
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2. queenkjuul ◴[16 Apr 25 11:45 UTC] No.43704147[source]▶
Oh wow never even knew that about the SSH feature, that's real scummy.

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.