Re:NPM Is Joining GitHub
by rafaelvasco on Monday March 16, 2020 @05:21PM
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It may appear blaming Ms forever for their past actions is a good idea. It's not. Those actions and decisions came from certain people. They're long gone. I look only to the present. MS decisions and actions these past few years have been pretty solid imo. We must always assume the best of everything, not the worst. Not matter what. It may appear naive, but it's the only sane way.
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They've created a funnel from a jobs site they control, through an operating system and hardware they control, with development tools they control, and source (etc.) on a web platform they control, onto a cloud they control.
Assume the best all you like. Microsoft are spying on you and can lock you out of their ecosystem for any reason. When that ecosystem includes critical public infrastructure, there is a problem.
The only "sane" response to this is to smile at the MS employees who tell you how much they love Open Source and to use absolutely any other platform.