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●● GitHub is Unsafe: Microsoft GitHub Participation is Still a Massive Liability and a Risk

Posted in Deception, Law, Microsoft at 8:47 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz

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Summary: Being a user/developer in GitHub means becoming a slave of Microsoft (herded, data-mined, and exploited for free labour); in spite of all the warnings, many people still rely on that site/centralised hub, but the tide seems to be turning

=> the tide seems to be turning

THE past few years were spent here giving many reasons to move away from the monopoly; not only for technical reasons but also — as we last noted yesterday — for legal and ethical reasons. We gave many more examples in the past.

=> ↺ technical reasons | legal | ethical | gave | many | more | examples

“…at GitHub, Microsoft is the master.”

Microsoft not only works for the DRM cartel, as we saw again this week; in Microsoft’s GitHub, a “TOS” violation (like “CoC” violation, typically protecting the powerful — at least in practice — instead of the vulnerable) covers criticism of Microsoft and it gets abused to remind developers that they’re just slaves to Microsoft. As one reader told us this morning: “In the recent story of a nodejs dev who changed his code to complain about Fortune500 companies using his stuff and not getting a dime, Github used a TOS violation to remove his changes.”

=> criticism of Microsoft

Because at GitHub, Microsoft is the master. Everybody else is a guest, a tenant, a serf. And until or unless people leave in droves the Free software world will be aggressively governed (oppressed) by Microsoft. This is exactly what Microsoft bought an operating-at-losses GitHub for. It's about exercising control/power over developers, no matter the cost. Microsoft already uses GitHub (a proprietary server side) to peddle proprietary software at the client side too. Reminder below. █

=> ↺ serf | what Microsoft bought an operating-at-losses GitHub for | It's about exercising control/power over developers, no matter the cost | Microsoft already uses GitHub (a proprietary server side) to peddle proprietary software at the client side too

Image: Interesting, so Microsoft is integrating VSCode into GitHub. Press dot (.) on any GitHub repo while signed in to see. PS. Seems to have issues with service workers on Firefox

=> ↺ Image: Interesting, so Microsoft is integrating VSCode into GitHub. Press dot (.) on any GitHub repo while signed in to see. PS. Seems to have issues with service workers on Firefox

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