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1. mirzap+k5[view] [source] 2023-06-20 17:38:27
>>MattIP+(OP)
I'm incredibly pleased about Microsoft's acquisition of Github, as I notice visible improvements every passing month. Considering Gitlab's pricing, I wonder why anyone would abandon GitHub Team or Enterprise plan in favor of Gitlab. Gitlab's costs are exorbitant, and they resemble Atlassian products, with an overwhelming number of features that are rarely used, cluttering the interface and diminishing the overall user experience.
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2. jacque+57[view] [source] 2023-06-20 17:46:05
>>mirzap+k5
I'm not. The biggest enemy of Linux/FOSS should never have been in charge of the biggest repository of open source software.
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3. Eduard+H9[view] [source] 2023-06-20 17:53:50
>>jacque+57
Microsoft earns a significant amount of money from hosting Linux servers and even makes contributions to the kernel.

How are they an enemy?

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4. orange+sa[view] [source] 2023-06-20 17:56:52
>>Eduard+H9
https://web.archive.org/web/20050922005808/http://news.zdnet...

https://web.archive.org/web/20180523190053/https://www.econo...

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5. arp242+2Z[view] [source] 2023-06-20 21:37:37
>>orange+sa
This is more than 20 years old...
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6. jacque+e71[view] [source] 2023-06-20 22:23:42
>>arp242+2Z
So is Microsoft. And everybody that is currently controlling the company was there when this happened.
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7. arp242+Q71[view] [source] 2023-06-20 22:27:41
>>jacque+e71
And? Are they still doing this kind of stuff or not? If they are, then it would be easy to come up with more recent examples.
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8. jacque+i72[view] [source] 2023-06-21 07:14:26
>>arp242+Q71
Yes, they are still doing this kind of stuff.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Microsoft

What surprises me is that the tech crowd is so ready to bend over for one of the worst companies on the planet in the software domain. These are the very same people that abused the legal system in every way that they could in order to slow down the adoption rate of open source. They are still doing this today but quietly, for instance by incentivizing municipalities and other government layers to use their software (for free if necessary) just to stop adoption of equivalent open source solutions.

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9. arp242+Ma2[view] [source] 2023-06-21 07:42:58
>>jacque+i72
> Yes, they are still doing this kind of stuff.

What specifically?

I'm not trying to be difficult, but linking to a lengthy Wikipedia page is not an argument. From a quick glance a number are old, and a number are just non-issues (e.g. "Mono patent concerns", which was just some baseless FUD mentioned by Stallman once almost 15 years ago), but I didn't read the entire page. "Incentivizing municipalities and other government layers to use their software" could just be normal business practice (or something shady – much depends on the details).

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