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Important open source projects should not use GitHub (2020)

Published on 2020-10-23. Modified on 2022-09-01.

Microsoft is very actively purchasing important projects related to open source and in April 2020 it was announced that they had now also acquired npm, a JavaScript packaging vendor, for an undisclosed sum of money. Some project developers only keep parts of the code in personal repositories, others haven't even got a backup but trust fully that GitHub will always have a working and current release of the latests commits. When they realized they couldn't do that and that the battle was lost, they deployed a new tactic in which they instead try to make money of Linux, which is what that are doing now in a lot of areas, and which is why they now contribute the open source communities.

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