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While Microsoft has a lot of nice marketing and really good PR, they are still a corporation that makes money off selling SQL server licenses and office suite a
by glorbol 8y ago
While Microsoft has a lot of nice marketing and really good PR, they are still a corporation that makes money off selling SQL server licenses and office suite and increasingly by harvesting your user data.
Microsoft is addicted to your data. They siphon it off whenever they get the chance, often times by default and without your knowledge or consent. Even their cli Linux tools have """analytics""".
This will never change, no matter what slick marketing materials they produce, what PR fluff they have, or shills that shill for them.
The simple fact is I cannot trust Microsoft, especially to not touch code in my private repositories. I am sure they just want some "metrics" and to do some "analytics" on all the private data held in GitHub.
To use GitHub now, is to trust the same company who works hand in hand with the government and the NSA to make sure you stay insecure and known to agencies who just want to run some "metrics" and do some "analytics" on you.
No thanks.
- chemicalcrux 8y agoWhere is the profit in the """analytics""" you're speaking of? I do not forsee a marketing firm being that interested in all of the ways I can fat-finger shell commands.
- foolfoolz 8y agojust a friendly reminder most cli tools you use today that run primarily against a cloud service publish analytics explicitly or implicitly. you can’t trust MS to not read your code? do you trust amazon to host your binaries? or database? or google cloud? or do you trust no one and rent your own cage and keep it locked? aws has an entire cloud for US gvoice. they work hand in hand with government requests. google is very tightly coupled as well. do you host entirely on foreign providers?