Are you guys fine with these new shenanigans from Github. I found a bug and wanted to check what has been the development on that, only to find out most of the discussion was hidden by github and requesting me to sign-in to view it.

It threw me straight back to when Microsoft acquired Github and the discussions around the future of opensource on a microsoft owned infrastructure, now microsoft is exploiting free work from the community to train its AI, and building walls around its product, are open source contributors fine with that ?

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[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Git has nothing to do with Microsoft and I think most tech people (th only people using git) know that.

I have seen and used alternative tools. Git has issues, just like all alternatives. Its just that git is vastly superior to all alternatives, and it's open source.

If (once) Microsoft gets abusive with GitHub, people will leave for alternatives, such is the life of open source

[–] toastal@lemmy.ml 1 points 7 months ago

Hard disagree with “vastly superior to all alternatives”, but I hope you are right about that last part.