GitHub's CEO

PEOPLE can only ever delude themselves into this ludicrous idea that Microsoft GitHub is OK with GPL/copyleft and doesn't care about what frameworks are used, whose hosting gets chosen, what IDE is preferred etc.

"Maybe Microsoft GitHub isn't totally aggressive towards developers, at least not yet. Censorship of developers and projects is quickly becoming a growing concern and people who don't choose Microsoft frameworks (and Azure, not to mention permissive licences, Visual Studio etc.) will over time be prodded in that direction."What's perhaps most shocking to us about the Microsoft GitHub thing is the way corporate media treats it, including so-called 'tech' press. They keep pushing all sorts of lies about "love" and tell us mythical stuff about "Arctic vault" (to distract from ICE contracts that cause Microsoft GitHub staff to flee in droves).

Maybe Microsoft GitHub isn't totally aggressive towards developers, at least not yet. Censorship of developers and projects is quickly becoming a growing concern and people who don't choose Microsoft frameworks (and Azure, not to mention permissive licences, Visual Studio etc.) will over time be prodded in that direction. At the moment Microsoft is building control over people, over developers in particular (not only users). As Ryan put it an hour ago in IRC, "GitHub is really nasty and might delete your project over DMCA letters. You should host your project in an area where the DMCA doesn't apply. The DMCA is part of what makes the US legally dangerous to host data in. DMCA/PRISM/SESTA, bunch of other stuff. There's a case winding through the courts that may strike down some or all of SESTA. The US government is an absolute menace."

"We kindly remind developers to not outsource code and entirely divert projects to GitHub."Ryan is an American based in Waukegan. He's also a former Microsoft MVP who has since then dumped Windows and became a GNU/Linux user.

We kindly remind developers to not outsource code and entirely divert projects to GitHub. The GitHub you know and see today isn't what it'll be next year or in 5 years. It's merely an instrument of control. Microsoft extended its monopoly to its very competition. It's proprietary software controlled by a company with a history of foaming at the mouth against Free software. None of that has changed except the "useful" (to them) pretenses. ⬆