GitHub is no longer independent at Microsoft after CEO resignation

Re:GitHub is no longer independent at Microsoft after CEO re... by pbiggar on Monday August 11, 2025 @01:39PM (#44867058)

Not just that, but Microsoft's reputation is in the process of taking a nose dive over its human rights record

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/aug/06/microsoft-isra...

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Re:GitHub is no longer independent at Microsoft after CEO re... by specproc on Monday August 11, 2025 @01:55PM (#44867260)

Like IBM in the forties.

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Re:GitHub is no longer independent at Microsoft after CEO re... by pfisch on Monday August 11, 2025 @01:51PM (#44867204)

Nobody even knows about this, no one thinks "Microsoft, hell no, they are a key player in the gaza conflict."

No one really associates human rights with Microsoft's reputation. That is the domain of Palantir, Meta, etc.

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Re:GitHub is no longer independent at Microsoft after CEO re... by mperham on Monday August 11, 2025 @02:22PM (#44867591)

I guess you speak for everyone?

I very much do look very negatively on Microsoft as a collaborator with modern fascist regimes, along with Meta, Palantir, X, etc.

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Re:GitHub is no longer independent at Microsoft after CEO re... by pbhjpbhj on Monday August 11, 2025 @03:59PM (#44868758)

What about Apple there? Bringing golden offerings to their god-king and so supporting the further corruption of the regime. One of the few with the power/money to stand against them instead kneeling before Trump like a teen beauty pageant hopeful.

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Re:GitHub is no longer independent at Microsoft after CEO re... by 1attice on Monday August 11, 2025 @02:04PM (#44867376)

as a former MSFT employee (who quit for reasons, well before the layoffs) I am not permitted to disparage or portray my former employer in a negative light.

I'm just mentioning this for no reason whatsoever. It popped into my head, for some reason.

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Re:GitHub is no longer independent at Microsoft after CEO re... by mikestew on Monday August 11, 2025 @02:59PM (#44868066)

As a former MSFT employee who disparages Microsoft on a regular basis, I ask: ‘dafuq did you get that idea?

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Re:GitHub is no longer independent at Microsoft after CEO re... by jjani on Monday August 11, 2025 @02:14PM (#44867509)

For life? How can you be bound by this? Unless you sold yourself out for an extra month pay.

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Re:GitHub is no longer independent at Microsoft after CEO re... by unethical_ban on Monday August 11, 2025 @02:23PM (#44867604)

That seems literally illegal, unless the disparagement would reference specific, classified programs.

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Re:GitHub is no longer independent at Microsoft after CEO re... by not_a_bot_4sho on Monday August 11, 2025 @11:57PM (#44872252)

I'm also a former employee but based in the US where such things are illegal.

In what country are you bound by clauses like that? I've never heard Microsoft doing something like that before.

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Re:GitHub is no longer independent at Microsoft after CEO re... by BlueTemplar on Monday August 11, 2025 @05:48PM (#44869855)

Yet. How do you think Meta acquired that reputation ?

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Re:GitHub is no longer independent at Microsoft after CEO re... by meta_ai_x on Monday August 11, 2025 @02:19PM (#44867563)

nothingburger

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Re:GitHub is no longer independent at Microsoft after CEO re... by lurk2 on Monday August 11, 2025 @02:05PM (#44867390)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lillehammer_affair https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Liberty_incident https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lavon_Affair

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Re:GitHub is no longer independent at Microsoft after CEO re... by coryrc on Monday August 11, 2025 @02:56PM (#44868027)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuskegee_Syphilis_Study

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombing_of_Dresden

https://www.cracked.com/article_23358_the-6-ballsiest-moment...

Err, don't know what you're suggesting.

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Re:GitHub is no longer independent at Microsoft after CEO re... by lurk2 on Monday August 11, 2025 @03:42PM (#44868583)

> Err, don't know what you're suggesting.

You do.

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Re:GitHub is no longer independent at Microsoft after CEO re... by gamblor956 on Monday August 11, 2025 @04:36PM (#44869171)

That's true of most of tech in general, these days. You have to pick your poison now.

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Re:GitHub is no longer independent at Microsoft after CEO re... by BlueTemplar on Monday August 11, 2025 @05:46PM (#44869839)

You really don't have to.

And as a developer you have the option to go for otherwise trickier alternatives, like not using iOS nor Android.

But of course someone that uses the word 'tech' for a tiny subset of it might not see that...

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