BUT: of course the whole thing is a bit worrying re: centralization and depending on how Microsoft handles the acquisition, it might kill GitHub because Microsoft isn't notoriously good at keeping acquisitions in a good state.

But the centralization part would be worrying no matter the buyer, mind you.

I personally don't think MS is gonna ruin GitHub, or that suddenly they're going to go all Windows-copyrighty on the software hosted on it.
That'd be an incredibly stupid move given theirs actions in open source in the recent years.

But let's think about the potential crossover between those two lads 💫

@Eramdam side note: ummm, microsoft stuff is used all over the military / weapon systems / what have you?

they're not exactly angels on that front....

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people are pissy about google doing that, because we hoped they would keep "not being evil" while microsoft was ~always~ "evil" but otherwise...... 🤷

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that aside. yeah. *nod*

@gdkar @Eramdam Don't they still get paid by the UK government to maintain "Windows XP for Nuclear Submarines"

@elomatreb @Eramdam yep. the us military has been actively on mandate ( especially since recent incidents ) to upgrade systems to windows 10. like, yeah, it's fuckin' ~everywhere~.

that's not even getting into stuff out of microsoft research.

it's just that we're used to that.

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the reason to be angry about google is that we thought they might be better than everyone else and they spat on those dreams. is mostly it. i think. 😣

@gdkar as much as I agree with you I think there’s a distinction to make between “having your stuff used by Bad Actors” and “actively trying to please Bad Actors and make it sound like it’s a cool thing to do”(Google’s project Maven and how enthusiastic their execs were about it is scary as fuck)

@Eramdam hmmm. idk. i guess as far as i can tell that's still kind of....

idk. not saying we should cut google slack for this ( and we ~did~ think they were serious about not being evil, and they did definitely jump on the evil bandwagon pretty fast. )

just that, like,.... that's honestly kind of business as normal? really?

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just that "business as normal" is.... bad. v_v

@gdkar of for sure. I didn't mention it but comps like Palantir have been doing that kind of shit for years already. "Business as usual" doesn't automatically equates to "good" as you say :/

@Eramdam

@Eramdam look at what happened to Yammer. they were adding lots of good features. Got bought by Microsoft. all the plans came to a standstill. A year later, got folded into office. Really a shame.

@Eramdam I totally agree, in saying that microsoft is more acceptable in this case. But still, I won't be able to trust them. And I am still saying that this whole market centralization is an absolutely bad thing.

@waweic *waves hand in the direction of => https://octodon.social/@Eramdam/100143423920267940 *

@Eramdam I... I'm sorry, you haven't heard about Microsoft :( https://enterprise.microsoft.com/en-us/articles/industries/government/federal/microsoft-solutions-for-the-u-s-dod/

@Eramdam I don't think there is a big tech company that doesn't have military contracts.

Also most military machines are running windows. There are nuclear submarines that still run on windows XP.

@AmarOk that would be hilarious it its own way

@Eramdam sure. But sad too