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GitHub is a Trap
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THE past few years were spent here giving many reasons to move away from the monopoly; not only for technical reasons but also -- as we last noted yesterday -- for legal and ethical reasons. We gave many more examples in the past.
"...at GitHub, Microsoft is the master."Microsoft not only works for the DRM cartel, as we saw again this week; in Microsoft's GitHub, a "TOS" violation (like "CoC" violation, typically protecting the powerful -- at least in practice -- instead of the vulnerable) covers criticism of Microsoft and it gets abused to remind developers that they're just slaves to Microsoft. As one reader told us this morning: "In the recent story of a nodejs dev who changed his code to complain about Fortune500 companies using his stuff and not getting a dime, Github used a TOS violation to remove his changes."
Because at GitHub, Microsoft is the master. Everybody else is a guest, a tenant, a serf. And until or unless people leave in droves the Free software world will be aggressively governed (oppressed) by Microsoft. This is exactly what Microsoft bought an operating-at-losses GitHub for. It's about exercising control/power over developers, no matter the cost. Microsoft already uses GitHub (a proprietary server side) to peddle proprietary software at the client side too. Reminder below. ⬆
