Richard Stallman Will Not Miss Microsoft GitHub, It Was Only Good at Harvesting a Lot of Code for Plagiarism-as-a-Service
Plagiarism-as-a-Service is also losing money, but investors are apparently willing to lose money for buzzwords, as long as the Ponzi scheme keeps going
A year after Microsoft had taken over GitHub Richard Stallman wrote (backup as it's down at the moment, probably due to LLM bots): "GitHub's encouragement of sloppy licensing, no licensing, or licensing under only a single version of the GPL, has done terrible harm to our community. GitHub was so bad for free software, all along, that I could imagine Microsoft's making it less bad, or making it more bad. We should judge by what actually happens, not by prejudice."
This was a few months after Stallman spoke about this to Microsoft directly (at Microsoft) and was then - within weeks - subjected to online lynch mobs that distracted from Bill Gates and his MIT affairs.
Now Microsoft is in effect pulling the plug on GitHub (but its media operatives are attempting to shift focus):
- GitHub the Company Has, in Effect, Just Died (Time to Look for Alternatives)
- Our Predictions Were Right: GitHub Dying as Losses Pile Up (as a Company It Cannot Continue to Exist, It's Not 'Free Hosting')
- It Looks More Like Microsoft GitHub Layoffs
Based on a long article from Wade Tyler Millward (below), they'll be data-mining people's code to try to squeeze something out of it, like a quick buck. So far Microsoft has been unable to do so. It never managed to 'monetise' what it bought, only ruin it.
The real news isn't about the CEO. It's about the end of GitHub (the company). The reason he leaves is the latter. █
