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Why is your open source project still hosted on GitHub?
Published on 2025-05-22. Perhaps the younger generation don't know anything about the past "evils" of Microsoft and naively believe that Microsoft is now the good friend to open source, but the truth is that all Microsoft acquisitions of open source projects is a business tactic that is put in place to improve Microsoft's loosing position to open source.
Development on GitHub has moved away from the decentralized nature of Git and has instead put focus on how to drive engagement, basically turning it into yet another social media platform. In February 2019, some of Microsoft's employees protested the company's war profiteering from a $480 million contract to develop augmented reality headsets for the United States Army. The digital infrastructure and military technologies provided by Microsoft are just as essential to the maintenance of Israel's apartheid state and the execution of its genocide in Gaza as physical walls and munitions.
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