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I’m only surprised it took this long.

I fully saw it when I heard but alas. I still need the green squares on my github page to get hired. Nobody looks at projects as much as the green squares.

Pretty sure I had Embrace Extend Extinguish as my 'status' when microsoft inevitably introduced that linkedin style social media bullshit to a git server.

Plenty of good alternatives out there, or roll your own!

Codeberg has a lot of restrictions regarding private repositories and... complicated verbiage regarding what licenses they want for public repositories.

For public repositories... do you think that MS et al can't already scrape all of that?

I am all for telling MS to go fuck themselves. But it is important people actually understand what they are and aren't getting in terms of privacy and the like. It is like how people still sometimes pretend that the completely open site where just about anyone can run an instance has LESS ai scraping than a reddit.

It was dead when MS bought it. Software developers aren't immune to denial.

Long live Microsoft 365 Copilot CodeShare Professional

Our company runs everything on Azure. We use windows PCs, Visual Studio Professional, C# .Net, outlook, teams, etc.

We make enterprise software and I am happy really. I wasn’t at the start but as time goes on I don’t care, I do my job and go home.

Because businesses that use .NET are already paying for it with their visual studio subscription or higher Microsoft support. It’s a bare minimum product that has no incentive to improve because no one pays for it. But businesses force the use of it because “we’re already paying for it”

Or your own server. But yeah this is not so good for the rest of us. They are doubling down on AI.

Now if only they could work that magic on ICE and IDF. (Microsoft is in bed with both.)

I'm finding this kind of Pikachu surprised face meme worthy, really.

We all know and knew that GitHub is Microsoft's. We all know that Microsoft is fucking evil, yet everyone and their mother have their main repo management with GitHub.

W.T.F.

what did you expect would happen, sooner rather than later?

Well technically nothing has happened yet, but you can imagine the fun that is coming

Just move to codeberg or a similar site.

For posterity: https://archive.softwareheritage.org/

I believe that's probably why they specify in the headline "at Microsoft" rather than just "independent."

You can have an independent division within a company that doesn't get orders from the company's main CEO, or you can have it be fully under that person's oversight. It used to be a separate division with its own management, now it's not, thus it's no longer internally independent.

That had already started.