GitHub Won't Last Much Longer
GitHub is dying. More people will, over time, realise that GitHub is dying. The CEO 'leaving' is a distraction from the real news. GitHub loses a ton of money (like it always did) and there's no solution to it. GitHub trying to 'monetise' plagiarism only gave it a class action lawsuit. A day ago someone wrote: "I don't even disagree with you. That's why I barely even bother with licensing. I just pick AGPLv3 to maximize freedom and leverage. I'm more radical than Stallman in this area. Stallman believes in and relies on copyright. I don't. [...] I don't work in the software industry. My aversion to intellectual property is one of the reasons why. I do have a GitHub Sponsors. For about a year, I had exactly one sponsor. Now I have zero. I am also opposed to advertising in general. I try very hard not to talk about my own projects unless it is socially acceptable to do so. Others have independently submitted my work here and on other sites. I was also invited to post about one of them on reddit once."
Reddit is nasty, like its owner Conde Nasty. As for Microsoft, to quote a comment from yesterday: "Bleak times ahead at the bloatware recycler."
Microsoft is clearly lying about its health as a company. It pays its workers with "stocks" and replaces whoever it can with cheaper one. As someone put it 9 hours ago: "The clip may be false, but as someone who lived in Redmond, now called Little India, the sentiment is not. Microsoft has been replacing citizens with visa holders or outsourcing the jobs to its IDCs for decades."
This was half a day ago, citing The Register MS: "A highly insightful article but Microsoft is on its own path, ignoring customer needs. If it stays on that path, expect bad days ahead with more layoffs of U.S. workers."
So even the The Register MS, run by a Microsofters, seems unhappy about Windows.
Disregard that comment above, but even Indians couldn't make up for GitHub's losses. A couple of years ago Microsoft GitHub fired an entire unit in India. Apparently even workers in India (not migrants) were not affordable anymore.
And "morale is going to tank even further." So says a comment from 2 hours ago.
We wrote about this several times last week. Many things at Microsoft are going to go the way of the Skype (or "dodo"). GitHub will be among those. █