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Re:Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub by tootie on Sunday June 03, 2018 @11:33PM (#17224378)
GitHub has had more ethics fails in the past few years than MS.
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Re:Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub by dean177 on Monday June 04, 2018 @03:37AM (#17225415)
Care to elaborate?
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Re:Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub by superflyguy on Monday June 04, 2018 @04:50AM (#17225782)
I remember reading that they employ some muppet to check that nobody uses "hate language" and their naive "check all words in text files against this list" spotted the word "retard" as in "fire retardant" and locked the project. Appealing for common sense, or even escalating the problem to someone with a functional grasp of English didn't succeed.
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Re:Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub by tootie on Monday June 04, 2018 @09:44AM (#17227705)
You don't remember when the co-founder had to step down over harassment issues? This was all over HN a few years ago. A female developer claimed she sexually harassed and discriminated against and the company then conspired to push her with the founders' wife (not an employee) leading the charge. That guy is a billionaire now.

https://www.wired.com/2014/04/tom-pw/

https://www.buzzfeed.com/carolineodonovan/an-executive-depar...

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