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minus-squareWyreOPlinkfedilinkEnglish26•1 year agoIt also means that Microsoft has unprecedented control over the life of any open source project still hosted on GitHub.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish9•1 year agoWhoever paying for the server will have control, Microsoft or not.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish15•1 year agoIf you don’t host your own git server, this is always true.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish13•1 year ago“Unprecedented” except for every single repo that’s ever been hosted on a platform the authors didn’t own. There’s far better battles to pick.
It also means that Microsoft has unprecedented control over the life of any open source project still hosted on GitHub.
Whoever paying for the server will have control, Microsoft or not.
If you don’t host your own git server, this is always true.
“Unprecedented” except for every single repo that’s ever been hosted on a platform the authors didn’t own. There’s far better battles to pick.