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There are an awful lot of people in the comments here calling this an advertisement and being upset about it. How are those that are upset about it not upset th

• cnst 6y ago
  This is the most upsetting part about it, IMHO. The reason Microsoft pays a salary to this person is precisely to get GitHub mentioned into these sorts of conversations -- even though it's widely known that GitHub doesn't support such usecases. But, of course, there's never any time to mention such facts; but here's an example if anyone's curious: https://blog.ffwll.ch/2017/08/github-why-cant-host-the-kernel.html https://blog.ffwll.ch/2017/08/github-why-cant-host-the-kerne.... Yet when a one-person team tries to provide relevant examples on the issues of dealing with Microsoft, pitching a potential solution, and offering their take on it -- fully open-sourced -- they get discounted as advertisement -- even though their service is free and open source.
  • kasabali 6y ago
    > Yet when a one-person team tries to provide relevant examples on the issues of dealing with Microsoft, pitching a potential solution, and offering their take on it -- fully open-sourced -- they get discounted as advertisement -- even though their service is free and open source. it's upsetting indeed. I'm 100% sure had he didn't mentioned SorceHut the same people would've complained instead that how there were no projects for improving mail based workflow, why didn't OP offer a suggestion, or that it's open source so why he didn't shut up and wrote a patch instead.