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Microsoft GitHub Exposé — Part XXVIII — GitHub to Shut Down All Offices, Including Its Headquarters



Series parts:

  1. Microsoft GitHub Exposé — Part I — Inside a Den of Corruption and Misogynists
  2. Microsoft GitHub Exposé — Part II — The Campaign Against GPL Compliance and War on Copyleft Enforcement
  3. Microsoft GitHub Exposé — Part III — A Story of Plagiarism and Likely Securities Fraud
  4. Microsoft GitHub Exposé — Part IV — Mr. MobileCoin: From Mono to Plagiarism... and to Unprecedented GPL Violations at GitHub (Microsoft)
  5. Microsoft GitHub Exposé — Part V — Why Nat Friedman is Leaving GitHub


  6. Microsoft GitHub Exposé — Part VI — The Media Has Mischaracterised Nat Friedman's Departure (Effective Now)
  7. Microsoft GitHub Exposé — Part VII — Nat Friedman, as GitHub CEO, Had a Plan of Defrauding Microsoft Shareholders
  8. Microsoft GitHub Exposé — Part VIII — Mr. Graveley's Long Career Serving Microsoft's Agenda (Before Hiring by Microsoft to Work on GitHub's GPL Violations Machine)
  9. Microsoft GitHub Exposé — Part IX — Microsoft's Chief Architect of GitHub Copilot Sought to be Arrested One Day After Techrights Article About Him
  10. Microsoft GitHub Exposé — Part X — Connections to the Mass Surveillance Industry (and the Surveillance State)


  11. Microsoft GitHub Exposé — Part XI — Violence Against Women
  12. Microsoft GitHub Exposé — Part XII — Life of Disorderly Conduct and Lust
  13. Microsoft GitHub Exposé — Part XIII — Nihilistic Death Cults With Substance Abuse and Sick Kinks
  14. Microsoft GitHub Exposé — Part XIV — Gaslighting Victims of Sexual Abuse and Violence
  15. Microsoft GitHub Exposé — Part XV — Cover-Up and Defamation


  16. Microsoft GitHub Exposé — Part XVI — The Attack on the Autonomy of Free Software Carries on
  17. Microsoft GitHub Exposé — Part XVII — Backsliding Into 1990s-Style Digital Slavery by Microsoft
  18. Microsoft GitHub Exposé — Part XVIII — The Story of NPM
  19. Microsoft GitHub Exposé — Part XIX — The Collapse of Team Mono
  20. Microsoft GitHub Exposé — Part XX — Entering Phase II


  21. Microsoft GitHub Exposé — Part XXI — Rumours About How Microsoft Plans to Actually Make Money (Not Losses) From GitHub
  22. Microsoft GitHub Exposé — Part XXII — 'Mr. GitHub Copilot' Balabhadra (Alex) Graveley Pleads Guilty After Assaulting Women
  23. Microsoft GitHub Exposé — Part XXIII — CoPlagiarist: Microsoft's GPL Violations and Plagiarism Tool Created by Serial Plagiarists
  24. Microsoft GitHub Exposé — Part XXIV — Using Microsoft Money as 'Get Out of Jail' Card After Suffocating Women
  25. Microsoft GitHub Exposé — Part XXV — Microsoft Employs Serial Strangler as a Manager, Running GitHub Copilot in Spite of Arrest for Assault on Women


  26. Microsoft GitHub Exposé — Part XXVI — The Layoffs Era Begins
  27. Microsoft GitHub Exposé — Part XXVII — The Future of OpenAI May Depend on the Fate of GitHub's Copilot in Court ($9 Billion in Damages)


  28. YOU ARE HERE ☞ GitHub to Shut Down All Offices, Including Its Headquarters


GitHub: Where everything comes to die



Summary: The headquarters of GitHub and all other offices of GitHub are shutting down; do people really want their projects hosted by a company that lays off many workers and shuts down all of its offices quite so abruptly?

MICROSOFT is a real blessing, isn't it? Anything it touches turns into dirt; sometimes sooner, sometimes later. Recall what Microsoft did to Yahoo! (many layoffs at the moment) and companies like Novell (remember Novell?), not to mention Nokia. It's Microsoft's touch of death. When Microsoft 'joined' (paid) the Linux Foundation the community representation got eliminated. This organisation is nowadays just cashing in on openwash and other lies. It harms the "Linux" brand or milks it to death (meaninglessness). "OLTP was killed by Microsoft too," an associate recalls. "That was well documented at the time but those articles are irretrievably in the past now and buried by the search engines and chaff."

Things are moving fast. The corporate media barely reports on the latest wave of Microsoft layoffs (second in three weeks!), including GitHub layoffs, so of course it won't quite 'find time' to cover this news (or barely; "when searching StartPage for "github layoffs" it recommends correcting the search query to "gitlab layoffs" instead," an associate said, reaffirming a trend we noticed 2 days ago -- Microsoft boosters try to change the focus to Gitlab). Maybe due to the timing of the announcement, internally at first, all we can expect at the moment is to be found in Indian media (active on Sundays too), citing another source. Here we go; Microsoft is "laying off up to 10% of its workforce and closing all of its offices, including its headquarters in San Francisco."

Tech Layoffs: Microsoft-owned GitHub to shed 10% employees, will close all offices

"The bottom line is, these offices aren't being shut down due to the pandemic but due to a lack of money."Consider this is a bit of a wake-up call if you have an account/projects at GitHub. Don't believe the damage-limiting face-saving statements (spin). At Sirius we had an "Office Manager in Company Without an Office" since 2020. Things deteriorated fast and now it seems like the company is on the verge of bankruptcy. The debt is vast. It is growing over time. There's no fix in a downturn economy.

GitHub never had a business model. Not before Microsoft took over and certainly not after that. What are they going to do? "Surprise" new charges for GitHub Actions? Shutting down 'inactive' projects like some of the competition planned to (for cost-savings)?

The bottom line is, these offices aren't being shut down due to the pandemic but due to a lack of money.

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