GNU/Linux Distros Abandoning Microsoft GitHub
As we've only just noted, citing blendOS (it has a new release this month), some developers "get it". To quote the Infrastructure Manager: "With Gitlab, we don't have to rely on awful moderation tools or wait for some support team to ban spammers. We don't have to sign away our control to a company that could remove us or disappear at any time. We have full control over who can sign up, file issues and fork repos."
They're talking about Microsoft when they talk of "a company".
We generally refuse to take seriously any BSD or GNU/Linux distros which outsource everything to Microsoft GitHub. We barely ever link to these.
How can we trust an operating system whose maintainers cannot or do not know how to set up their own development systems?
Will curl be next to leave Microsoft GitHub? The project's founder recently asked this in the open after he had been bombarded by fake bug reports created by Microsoft bots (distracting from the real, legitimate bug reports). █
