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Re:Ask HN: My GitHub account got suspended without any notice by jacquesm on Tuesday July 14, 2020 @12:21PM (#23833840)
Of course it would, what else did you expect. Microsoft and open source have preciously little to do with each other regardless of how much lipstick they put on the pig. Selling Github to MS was a major mistake and one that we will all eventually end up regretting. This company is not friendly to open source unless it will find a way to milk it for profit, and even then only until that route is more profitable than any other scheme they come up with.

Lambs to the slaughter. Did you really believe that Microsoft suddenly did a 180 and that all the people that thought EEE and hamstringing Linux through proxy lawsuits and outright lies were just fine have left the company?

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Re:Ask HN: My GitHub account got suspended without any notice by quadrifoliate on Tuesday July 14, 2020 @12:49PM (#23834353)
I had hoped that GitHub's culture, Nat Friedman as a CEO, and Microsoft's seeming acceptance of Open Source lately would combine to maybe prevent GitHub from turning into Microsoft SharePoint For Code.

It seems that I may be wrong.

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Re:Ask HN: My GitHub account got suspended without any notice by joepie91_ on Tuesday July 14, 2020 @06:45PM (#23839015)
Microsoft's "acceptance of open-source" only stretches as far as it helps them survive, in an economy where "why would I buy your product when there's this open-source thing" is a question that gets asked more and more frequently. You know, the "embrace" and "extend" phases of "embrace, extend, extinguish".

This is really obvious from the parts that they choose not to open-source, such as https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/intellicode/issues/201

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Re:Ask HN: My GitHub account got suspended without any notice by agustif on Tuesday July 14, 2020 @01:29PM (#23834946)
Nat might still hold the CEO title, but no longer has the power to set policy.

He should do as he is told by MS.

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