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Open source versus Microsoft: The new rebellion begins (www.theregister.com)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Microsoft products you can start saying no to: Windows, WSL, GitHub, Sponsors, Copilot, VS Code, Codespaces, Azure, npm, Teams, Outlook, Office, & LinkedIn.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Yeeeeeah…

Many of these I agree with. Then you get into things like github and LinkedIn. Dropping GitHub means not contributing to a huge swath of open source projects. Dropping LinkedIn is a great way to get your job application passed over (it’s literally required for some companies…. For some dumb reason.)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

Use them reluctantly & push back against it until you can free yourself from them. Let folks know you are unhappy about it or powers at be will think everything is okay. Surely we can agree fundamentally that Microsoft should not be controlling these spaces as it does with the platform lock-in.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

npm?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

npm, Inc. (a subsidiary of GitHub, a subsidiary of Microsoft)

-- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Npm