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I have also bookmarked this, and will be sharing it with the few Open Source projects I contribute to as evidence that we should stop using GitHub for crucial w

I have also bookmarked this, and will be sharing it with the few Open Source projects I contribute to as evidence that we should stop using GitHub for crucial work. It's a sad thing since I think they have a more intuitive platform than GitLab or Bitbucket, but seem to be transitioning to a full-blown enterprise obsessed Microsoft division.

jacquesm 6y ago
Of course it would, what else did you expect. Microsoft and open source have preciously little to do with each other regardless of how much lipstick they put on the pig. Selling Github to MS was a major mistake and one that we will all eventually end up regretting. This company is not friendly to open source unless it will find a way to milk it for profit, and even then only until that route is more profitable than any other scheme they come up with. Lambs to the slaughter. Did you really believe that Microsoft suddenly did a 180 and that all the people that thought EEE and hamstringing Linux through proxy lawsuits and outright lies were just fine have left the company?
- quadrifoliate 6y ago
  I had hoped that GitHub's culture, Nat Friedman as a CEO, and Microsoft's seeming acceptance of Open Source lately would combine to maybe prevent GitHub from turning into Microsoft SharePoint For Code. It seems that I may be wrong.
  - joepie91_ 6y ago
    Microsoft's "acceptance of open-source" only stretches as far as it helps them survive, in an economy where "why would I buy your product when there's this open-source thing" is a question that gets asked more and more frequently. You know, the "embrace" and "extend" phases of "embrace, extend, extinguish". This is really obvious from the parts that they choose not to open-source, such as https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/intellicode/issues/201 https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/intellicode/issues/201
  - agustif 6y ago
    Nat might still hold the CEO title, but no longer has the power to set policy. He should do as he is told by MS.
rapnie 6y ago
Gitea is more similar to GH, and besides self-hosting there are providers that'll host your OSS projects for free, like notabug.org and codeberg.org and probably a bunch more. https://notabug.org https://notabug.org https://codeberg.org https://codeberg.org

jacquesm 6y ago

Of course it would, what else did you expect. Microsoft and open source have preciously little to do with each other regardless of how much lipstick they put on the pig. Selling Github to MS was a major mistake and one that we will all eventually end up regretting. This company is not friendly to open source unless it will find a way to milk it for profit, and even then only until that route is more profitable than any other scheme they come up with. Lambs to the slaughter. Did you really believe that Microsoft suddenly did a 180 and that all the people that thought EEE and hamstringing Linux through proxy lawsuits and outright lies were just fine have left the company?

quadrifoliate 6y ago
I had hoped that GitHub's culture, Nat Friedman as a CEO, and Microsoft's seeming acceptance of Open Source lately would combine to maybe prevent GitHub from turning into Microsoft SharePoint For Code. It seems that I may be wrong.
- joepie91_ 6y ago
  Microsoft's "acceptance of open-source" only stretches as far as it helps them survive, in an economy where "why would I buy your product when there's this open-source thing" is a question that gets asked more and more frequently. You know, the "embrace" and "extend" phases of "embrace, extend, extinguish". This is really obvious from the parts that they choose not to open-source, such as https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/intellicode/issues/201 https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/intellicode/issues/201
- agustif 6y ago
  Nat might still hold the CEO title, but no longer has the power to set policy. He should do as he is told by MS.

rapnie 6y ago

Gitea is more similar to GH, and besides self-hosting there are providers that'll host your OSS projects for free, like notabug.org and codeberg.org and probably a bunch more. https://notabug.org https://notabug.org https://codeberg.org https://codeberg.org