alt Hacker NewsFunny that people said the exact same thing back when GitHub was originally acquired [0], I wonder how many actually went through with their words and ditched it. I bet GitHub has more users today than ever before though.
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Just speaking anecdotally, Codeberg today feels like the Gitlab of yesteryear, except that Codeberg has projects on it. Someone who is contributing to open source will eventually need to create a Codeberg account.
The top comment of the linked thread ("If Microsoft shares SSL certs with NSA they could do MITM attacks") is something that I find much more likely today than back in 2018.
They can have the new users pushing out sloppy projects.
The serious users leaving will definitely dent profitability. And GitHub being a social network, could start a death spiral.
>Why MS cares your private repositories? give a reason? Maybe using your code to train their programming robot, lol
>Whether they will abuse the trust of having complete and total access to every private repo and all of the code inside or not remains to be seen
>MS is pushing their ads within their own OS more and more, will GitHub get the same treatment[...]?
Funny.