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poriseyesterday at 4:17 PM6 repliesview on HN

Take it away from Microsoft. Not sure how this isn't an antitrust issue anyway.


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burningChromeyesterday at 4:28 PM

At its core antitrust cases are about monopolies and how companies use anti-competitive conduct to maintain their monopoly.

Github isn't the only source control software in the market. Unless they're doing something obvious and nefarious, its doubtful the justice department will step in when you can simply choose one of many others like Bitbucket, Sourcetree, Gitlab, SVN, CVS, Fossil, DARCS, or Bazaar.

There's just too much competition in the market right now for the govt to do anything.

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palatayesterday at 5:39 PM

> Not sure how this isn't an antitrust issue anyway.

Simple: the US stopped caring about antitrust decades ago.

brendanfinanyesterday at 4:26 PM

It's not an antitrust issue because antitrust laws aren't enforced in the U.S.

kgwxdyesterday at 4:28 PM

That's on every individual that decided to "give it" to Microsoft. Git was made precisely to make this problem go away.

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that_guy_iainyesterday at 4:25 PM

Not sure how having downtime is an anti-competition issue. I'm also not sure how you think you can take things away from people? Do you think someone just gave them GitHub and then take it away? Who are you expecting to take it away? Also, does your system have 100% uptime?

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alimbadayesterday at 4:24 PM

Do you also post "Take it away from $OWNER" every time your open source software breaks?

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