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Re:Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub by saurik on Sunday June 03, 2018 @05:12PM (#17222113)
> Maybe this event will finally shift things back into a decentralized direction.

People say this every time stuff like this happens, and yet people never learn :/.

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Re:Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub by troy786 on Sunday June 03, 2018 @07:22PM (#17223062)
> Talks about a decentralized environment

Keeps his tools related to Cydia closed-source...

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Re:Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub by jtl999 on Sunday June 03, 2018 @09:23PM (#17223733)
What's the story with that?
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Re:Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub by troy786 on Sunday June 03, 2018 @10:06PM (#17223964)
Basically Cydia is an apt manager for jailbroken iOS devices and while Cydia itself is open-source, the tools required to get tweak injection (Mobile Substrate) are not, making Cydia itself useless for newer jailbreaks released. Making Cydia not only a monopoly but centralizing the tools required to make it useful at all.
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