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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

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Why are so many Linux projects on Microsoft GitHub? Shouldn't they all move to Codeberg? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 day ago by Dymonika@lemmy.ml to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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Sure, I know a lot of projects have been on GH since before MS bought it, but they've owned it for quite a while now, so we really should be seeing better migration out by now, no?

Codeberg is nonprofit which seems more in the spirit of the Linux ecosystem overall. GH is for-profit...

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[–] dwt@feddit.org 8 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (1 children)

A friend of mine sees using GitHub as microslop paying reparations to open source.

[–] utopiah@lemmy.ml 12 points 12 hours ago

Right, like how Micro$lop :

blocked repository search without login (while it worked before the acquisition)
pushed in the most traditional Micro$lop fashion for its own product, e.g. Copilot, with in product ads
use repositories as ways to feed its own set of products, e.g. Azure for OpenAI, in order to push for code generation while ignoring licenses

and all the other things (please feel free to make this list more comprehensive) as "reparations"?

It's the same old "Embrace, extend, and extinguish " (EEE) scheme they've been (sadly successfully) running for decades now.