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#GitHub n’est plus indépendant de #Microsoft

« GitHub ne sera désormais plus indépendant, mais bien pleinement intégré à la division CoreAI de Microsoft. »

« Désormais, GitHub sera plus directement contrôlé par la direction de Microsoft et ses objectifs seront alignés avec ceux de la firme, notamment en matière d’IA. »

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📢 CALL TO FEDIVERSE

Tons of discussion about seeking alternatives to #Microsoft #Github, now that it has become part of MS's #AI division.

What made GH so popular, we should ask? Well, a ton of features and services on top of #git and a huge platform that makes exploring millions of #FOSS projects easy, are among the reasons I suppose.

The #ActivityPub @forgefed project funded by #NGI0 via @nlnet is creating open standards to provide the same, *native* to the #fediverse!

Yet they need HELP.

»Unabhängigkeit von GitHub endet – #Code-Plattform wird Teil von #Microsoft #CoreAI:
Microsoft hat sich die Entwicklerplattform GitHub mit dem jetzt erfolgten Abgang des bisherigen CEOs Thomas Dohmke vollständig einverleibt. Nach der vor einigen Jahren erfolgten Übernahme verliert #GitHub damit seine #Unabhängig'keit. Für Entwickler in aller Welt könnte dies drastische Folgen haben.«

Wenn dies nicht mal ein Argument ist um für #OpenSource zB auf @Codeberg zu wechseln?

👉 winfuture.de/news,152865.html

WinFuture.de · Unabhängigkeit von GitHub endet: Code-Plattform wird Teil von Microsoft CoreAIBy Roland Quandt

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Three facts about Microsoft:

Microsoft recently had it's A.I. division take over Github.

Microsoft also owns npm.

Microsoft also hosts over 11 thousand terabytes of Israeli military data on it's Azure servers collected from the mass surveillance of Palestinians, which the Israeli military uses to blackmail people, hold them in captivity, and justify killing them after the fact.

"Minha desconfiança em relação ao #Github acabou de passar por um ponto de inflexão, já que seu CEO renunciou (sim, o Github havia sido adquirido pela #Microsoft há algum tempo, mas ainda era permitido operar como sua própria empresa) e Nadella anunciou que ele não será substituído.

Em vez disso, o Github será engolido pelo departamento de CoreAI da Microsoft.

O que significa que o maior (de longe) armazenamento de código aberto se tornará oficialmente apenas mais uma peça em relação aos planos da Microsoft para a supremacia da IA.

Além disso, mesmo que eu tenha discordado dele algumas vezes, você se lembra do momento em que o youtube recebeu um pedido de remoção da DMCA, e Thomas Dohmk entrou no canal Discord, pediu desculpas aos desenvolvedores, prometeu fazer o seu melhor para trazê-lo de volta e, aparentemente, ele o fez de fato? Bem, você pode esquecer Satya Nadella fazendo a mesma coisa - ele se preocupa em automatizar a codificação e cortar custos, nem na experiência dos devs, nem na comunidade que herdou.

Se você quiser hospedar seu código-fonte, basta rodar seu próprio servidor Forgejo ou Sourcehut e implementar medidas anti-bot.

Cada outra coisa, sem exceções, apenas expõe você à enfeitiçagem."

@tecnologia@lemmy.pt @tecnologia@lemmy.eco.br #tecnologia

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manganiello.socialFabio Manganiello (@fabio@manganiello.social)My mistrust towards #Github just passed a tipping point, as its CEO resigned (yes, it had been acquired by #Microsoft a while ago, but it was still allowed to operate as its own company) and Nadell...

GitHub will be folded into Microsoft proper as CEO steps down
arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/0

Today's news about GitHub should not come as a big surprise. The writing was on the wall in 2018 when Microsoft bought GitHub for $7.5 Billion. Microsoft is asserting full control over a company they've consumed, and they're proceeding to run it into the ground. And, as with practically every Tech company these days, the motivation is to build hype about integration with AI/LLM technology.

What I find surprising is the timing of GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke's departure — it was not part of an immediate post-takeover clearout, nor after a transitional period that's traditionally one or two years, nor did he settle-in comfortably until the end of his career.

Concerns that GitHub is progressing along the path to enshittification are not unfounded. Microsoft has a habit of this — look at what they did to Hotmail, Visio, Nokia, Skype, and more (LinkedIn is, IMHO, an exception to this pattern; it came pre-enshittified).

I'm tipping that most companies currently using GitHub will continue to use it. The news isn't serious enough for them to put themselves through the discomfort of migrating to a different repository platform, or establishing and committing to maintain their own in-house system. Small businesses, community projects, students, hobby coders, and some Open Source Software projects might be inspired to migrate? Maybe? Startups might think a bit harder about whether to go with GitHub or one of the alternatives?

I think the real lesson here is that any platform you get into needs to have a smooth path to migrate in your content, and to migrate out as a safe and easy exit strategy. In the meantime, the importance of interoperability is as strong as ever. The same goes for not getting locked into an ecosystem that looks convenient but turns out to be a "Walled Garden". That, and the warning that if a product or service is presented to you as "Free" then it's likely that you and your work are the product.

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Ars Technica · GitHub will be folded into Microsoft proper as CEO steps downBy Andrew Cunningham