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Why are so many Linux projects on Microsoft GitHub? Shouldn't they all move to Codeberg? (lemmy.ml)
submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by to c/linux@lemmy.ml
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Sure, I know a lot of projects have been on GH since before MS bought it, but they've owned it for quite a while now, so we really should be seeing better migration out by now, no?

Codeberg is nonprofit which seems more in the spirit of the Linux ecosystem overall. GH is for-profit...

EDIT: All right, all right, I've gotten schooled. Thank you, O wise ones; I didn't realize how much Microsoft literally depends on Linux, among other things. I will proceed to shut up.

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[–] 9 points 3 months ago* (1 child)

A friend of mine sees using GitHub as microslop paying reparations to open source.

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  • [–] 13 points 3 months ago

    Right, like how Micro$lop :

    • blocked repository search without login (while it worked before the acquisition)
    • pushed in the most traditional Micro$lop fashion for its own product, e.g. Copilot, with in product ads
    • use repositories as ways to feed its own set of products, e.g. Azure for OpenAI, in order to push for code generation while ignoring licenses

    and all the other things (please feel free to make this list more comprehensive) as "reparations"?

    It's the same old "Embrace, extend, and extinguish " (EEE) scheme they've been (sadly successfully) running for decades now.

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