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>>ig0r0+(OP)
What safe guards are in place to prevent Microsoft from using GitHub to glean competitive intelligence?

Just like Facebook used Onavo.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/facebooks-onavo-gives-social-me...

>>specia+N3
The same safeguards that are in place on Azure (which is used by 99% of Fortune 500s for either Office 365 or cloud stuff), which is to say, ethics, and the fact that if they tried it once most of those companies would reduce their spend with Microsoft immediately. Not to mention the government contracts.

>>jediea+PF
Isn't that exactly what's already happening? [0]

We got a sales call (seminar) from elastic.co. Despite all the positives, it was a hard value proposition. Why would we switch from Amazon's offering? For us noobs, elastic.co wasn't enough better to entice us to switch.

AWS is clearly scooping up the vast majority of users with their "good enough" offering. (I assume Azure, GCP, do the same.) I'm not saying it's right or wrong. I'm just saying it happens. And now Microsoft has much better forward looking intel.

I've been chewing on this ever since. Feels just like the 90s. I used to write AutoCAD add-ons. We third party developers knew in our bones that eventually Autodesk would steal our lunch money.

FWIW, I closed my personal repos on GitHub, in case any of my wares some day become popular.

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[0] Amazon Has Gone From Neutral Platform to Cutthroat Competitor, Say Open Source Developers

Community leaders say AWS increasingly poses an existential threat

https://onezero.medium.com/open-source-betrayed-industry-lea...