Comment by Animats
8 months ago
This creates a new concern. Is it still safe to host projects that compete with Microsoft on Github? The answer may be no.
8 months ago
This creates a new concern. Is it still safe to host projects that compete with Microsoft on Github? The answer may be no.
The time for that concern was way back when Microsoft acquired github. Instead of moving elsewhere, everyone just doubled down on making github the defacto place to host our most critical open source infrastructure.
How many times do we as a community have to get bit by Microsoft before we learn?
These platforms constantly ban people for inscrutable reasons without any recourse, except perhaps for "support by media attention". I see no reason to assume this is any different, and that the ban is unrelated to their work on LibreOffice or anything else.
GitHub (and GitHub accounts) do not seem to have this problem as near as I can tell. For better or worse, I've found that reporting spammers and bad faith actors is a largely a pointless exercise as it will all go in a black hole.