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This just makes me think of when Facebook bought Oculus and everyone was like, “Well fuck, I really wanted on, but I guess not now.”
It’s interesting even how, a decade past the days of Bill Gates as a Borg, even as our community has matured and we don’t had on MS anywhere near as much as we use to, we still see this as not something we really want.
I agree, Microsoft is really not the company to be running Github. I wonder if it will still stay strong or end up going the way of Source Forge.
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Well, for me, it’s not the ancient past so much as present. They patent troll the crap out of companies. That’s anti-innovation that will control an innovation hotbed. The Windows 8 UI debacle and them putting ads on paid services like Live makes me weary of UI-facing changes they might do. Then, they put surveillance into their products mostly for advertisers but maybe governments, too. They do this is in paid products which arent those you expect to sell your info.
So, the company’s current actions show they suck in a lot of ways which include screwing over their customers and suing innovators. Bad fit for Github.
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Not even the ancient past:
- Spying on your activities through telemetry
- Not providing full opt-outs in compliance with GDPR
- Installing stuff onto your computer without your consent like Candy Crush
- Forced updates, sometimes regardless of whether you’re doing something uninterruptable at the time
That’s just off the top of my head for Windows 10 as of now.
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Spying on your activities through telemetry
Telemetry seems to be getting built into everything now as well, Visual Studio and Code, SQL Server, the OS (backported into Win 7 and 8 too), not sure about Office (offline) but it can’t be far behind if not already in there.
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Installing stuff onto your computer without your consent like Candy Crush
Is the crapware issue really on Microsoft, or OEMs like Dell and HP?
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No, it’s really on Microsoft. It was in an update - https://community.spiceworks.com/topic/1369179-how-can-i-prevent-windows-10-from-automatically-installing-sponsored-apps
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Damn. Windows got even shittier. I honestly didn’t think it possible.
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It doesn’t matter to me if it’s Microsoft or not. If Microsoft hadn’t acquired Github, then some other megacorporation probably would have. It just so happens that Microsoft is trying to mind its manners after getting pimp-slapped by Google, Apple, and Facebook, but I’m not going to trust them just because they’re currently the underdog.
The problem isn’t Microsoft. The problem is the way we allow corporations to operate in the US. Every time one corporation acquires another, the acquiring corporation becomes bigger and more powerful.
This might seem quaint, but I don’t think that corporations as large as Microsoft, Facebook, Apple, AT&T, Alphabet, Comcast, Samsung, Disney, etc. should be permitted to exist. I think they’re inherently inimical to free markets and to democracy. I think that when a corporation’s market capitalization exceeds a certain threshold, it should either be regulated as a public utility, broken up, or dissolved.
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Got a colleague that emails his versions to himself.. Always thought he was crazy but perhaps I should think again.
Despite my best efforts, my windows install is running like garbage. With news that windows may be going month to month, Im considering switching to linux for good.
Otherwise for the job, I am working hard with d3.js and reading through Grammar of Graphics 2nd Edition. It has been a great read https://www.springer.com/us/book/9780387245447
Personally, I am working on smart contracts with ethereum, and now am going to start toying with vyper soon.