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For software engineers it is hard to protest in public since Microsoft controls GitHub and many "free" OSS projects where most real contributors have left after
by klardc 2y ago
For software engineers it is hard to protest in public since Microsoft controls GitHub and many "free" OSS projects where most real contributors have left after Microsoft installed a small ruling class of otherwise unremarkable software engineers.
For Hollywood writers, artists, musicians, book authors it is much easier to protest. You could go to Redmond for a couple of weekends, camp on "One True Microsoft Way" and protest.
And the NYT would cover this, since its interests are aligned with the protesters.
- courseofaction 2y agoWhen the short term cost of non-participation is far, far higher than the long term cost for the individual, is the ToS anything less than coercive? If you don't use github on principle, you're fucked. We need the public square back, we need it conceptualised as such. The death of twitter was horrifying, apparently you can just BUY it. Excuse my passionate language, but fuck these predators.
- MiguelX413 2y agoOnly decentralized and open source services were ever candidates to being public squares.