GitHub Private Repos Considered Private-Ish

Re:GitHub Private Repos Considered Private-Ish by mtlmtlmtlmtl on Sunday June 04, 2023 @10:36AM (#36185916)

Eh, I wouldn't say the say they handled the whole DR-DOS saga very reputably. And in 2001 they came to within an inch of their life in US v. Microsoft, a litigation mainly based on anticompetitive practices from the 90s.

Microsoft was disreputable in the 90s to the point they were almost broken up several times.

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Re:GitHub Private Repos Considered Private-Ish by rascul on Sunday June 04, 2023 @10:39AM (#36185942)

Microsoft's battle against Netscape (which is also part of the show Valley of the Boom), and the Halloween documents, are two more examples.

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Re:GitHub Private Repos Considered Private-Ish by ethbr0 on Sunday June 04, 2023 @02:47PM (#36188293)

It bleeds over into ethics at some point.

Microsoft in the DOS days was still fighting hard for market. Microsoft in the Netscape days? Eh... less of a competitive claim. Post ~2005? No claim.

For me, the definition of "reputable" changes when you're a competitor among equals vs when you're a monopoly.

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Re:GitHub Private Repos Considered Private-Ish by rascul on Sunday June 04, 2023 @11:17PM (#36191839)

They were a monopoly since the '90s.

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