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It should be noted that we're talking about Microsoft's resources here, not some independent CI company or startup. While I don't wanna encourage anyone violati
by t0astbread 6y ago
It should be noted that we're talking about Microsoft's resources here, not some independent CI company or startup. While I don't wanna encourage anyone violating any ToS I think the moral situation is a bit different for a tech giant.
- derision 6y agoIt's not about Microsoft's resources, it's about holding up those resources from others
- xwdv 6y agoThe resources are effectively limitless, it’s not a big deal.
- ss3000 6y agoIt's a tragedy of the commons situation. Microsoft might be _able_ to provided effectively limitless funding to power these free workers, but if enough people choose to abuse this, Microsoft might no longer be _willing_ to provide that funding, so everybody would be deprived of a useful resource because of the bad actors.
- minot 6y agoYeah, Microsoft does some very strange things. Particularly, I'd like to draw attention to how skydrive/one drive used to have 25? GB and not only did Microsoft lower it to 7? But it said it would delete files over the limit. I have gone over the limit on Dropbox and it just stops you from uploading until you bring your storage within quota. Google Drive does the same iirc. Microsoft is just outright terrible.
- joshspankit 6y agoI would even argue that rampant abuse might actually be threatening to GitHub the company. MS may still be the type of company to change it’s mind about upholding the principles that GitHub runs on.
- ohyeshedid 6y agoYou mean MacStadium resources, since that's the 3rd party company that provides the actual backend service.