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You all talk a big game, but your actions are ineffectual. You don't consider the leverage you have to "encourage" Microsoft to turn public GitHub search back o
by zackmorris 3y ago
You all talk a big game, but your actions are ineffectual. You don't consider the leverage you have to "encourage" Microsoft to turn public GitHub search back on.
Real leverage looks like all of us banding together to boycott Microsoft's most profitable income streams. Not GitHub. But cloud services like Azure, and Office, gaming, etc:
https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/these-2-revenue-streams-account-for-60-of-microsofts-top-line https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/these-2-revenue-streams-acco...
It's about making unilateral ensh*ttification decisions like this so expensive for parent companies that they become unthinkable. The board and investors sometimes need to be reminded how expensive these decisions really are.
We've all seen stock prices tank by half in one day since the Dot Bomb. A weak signal starts a big wave in this age of algorithmic trading.
A high-profile company publicly switching to AWS/GCP to avoid eating MS's sh@t sends a strong signal.
More importantly, after everything that MS has put us through over the decades, divesting is FUN! :-)
- xign 3y agoI mean, GitHub is still by far the most open source friendly repository hosting service by orders of magnitude. I wish we have code search back for anonymous GitHub use as well, but the simple fact is there isn't another service that comes close to providing free service to open source software. Now, I know that GitHub built its reputation on hosting open source software so it's probably not fair to compare other services like BitBucket or GitLab to it, but I'm not sure what people are thinking they can divest to.