Re:How GitHub replaced SourceForge as the dominant code host...
by ThrowawayR2 on Saturday March 30, 2024 @02:08PM
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Google was never benevolent, no for-profit business is. It was baffling to me how many developers took "Don't be evil" at face value, particularly for an almost completely advertising funded (i.e. highly motivated for enshittification) corporation.
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Re:How GitHub replaced SourceForge as the dominant code host...
by aleph_minus_one on Saturday March 30, 2024 @02:50PM
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> It was baffling to me how many developers took "Don't be evil" at face value
In my opinion a little bit more care must be taken here:
The "don't be evil" slogan was in my opinion both a blessing and a curse for Google: a blessing in that people initially trusted that Google does not intend to do something evil; a curse in the sense that when they started doing things that were considered "evil", it lead to a massive reputation damage for Google.