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Re:Everyone complaining about MS buying GitHub needs to offe... by silverlake on Sunday June 10, 2018 @02:16PM (#17279394)
There often isn’t a good solution, only a bunch of “bad” solutions. Pointing out that they are bad is useless to everyone. GitHub wanted to be a successful independent company. That failed. What is the next least bad solution before bankruptcy?
Re:Everyone complaining about MS buying GitHub needs to offe... by slowmovintarget on Sunday June 10, 2018 @03:09PM (#17279684)
> Pointing out that they are bad is useless to everyone.

This is false.

Some people may not have given the matter consideration. When they don't they may accept the bad solution as normal, and "normal" often rightly or wrongly leads people to jump to the conclusion that the solution is proper. I've many times had to argue against something where the argument in favor was "we've always done it that way."

Pointing out that a solution is bad records challenges that can be met and satisfied in producing a new solution. But if no one notices, or those who do never say anything, then people will tend to assume it is normal and therefore proper.

Re:Everyone complaining about MS buying GitHub needs to offe... by maym86 on Sunday June 10, 2018 @02:34PM (#17279496)
> Pointing out that they are bad is useless to everyone.

Only if the people making the decision are comptent and already considered the issues.