How to Combat the Exploitation and Abuse by Microsoft GitHub
Not to mention corruption and crimes against women [1, 2]
For many years (since 2018 if not earlier) we've explained the many reasons to quit GitHub and we showed stories to support these reasons.
"It might help too to mention 'sharecropping' every time Microsoft GitHub comes up," an associate noted. "Microsoft GitHub is all about digital sharecropping and appears otherwise unprofitable for Microsoft. That raises the old observation that Bill [Epsteingate] is willing to lose money indefinitely in an area just to ensure that no one else can make money from it either."
When Richard Stallman (rms) was asked to come to Microsoft he said: "Direct GitHub to promote correct and clear use of licenses and the best use of copyleft (GPL version 3-or-later)."
Only a few years later the Serial Strangler from Microsoft and his best friend (back then GitHub CEO) attacked the GPL by LLM plagiarism. Then these deplorables (who also also racist; we shared evidence) attacked some women, including my wife (and myself).
There are many female victims here. Moreover, GitHub is inherently very racist. It is the opposite of inclusive.
Moral issues aside, there are many technical reasons and legal reasons to avoid GitHub. We covered many of these before.
Any time I see someone choosing GitHub for a new project I almost sense misogyny and people willing to excuse criminals "because it's free". █
"They [Microsoft] have the deepest of pockets, unlimited ambition, and they are willing to lose money for years and years just to make sure that you don't make any money, either. And they are mean, REALLY mean."
--Robert X. Cringely