Comment on Using StartAllBack? No Windows updates for you, says Microsoft

• Excrubulent@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Microsoft owns github. I wonder if there’s going to be a purge of this kind of software from the system coming down the pike.

  I’m sure if they did that it would spark a mass exodus and the development of a viable alternative, but I’ve never seen those kinds of inevitable consequences stop a corporation from enshittifying.

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  • prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    There are viable alternatives to GitHub already, especially if you need to host your own code.

    Gitlab comes to mind.

    Microsoft have actually been decent stewards of GitHub

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    • corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Microsoft have actually been decent stewards of GitHub

      Ah. That’s the “embrace” phase.

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      • prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Luckily for us their are viable alternates out there already. If GitHub disappeared we’d have alternates.

        Git itself is not owned by Microsoft.

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    • Excrubulent@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It’s impossible to imagine that they haven’t talked about nixxing something like Microsofiy Activation Scripts though.

      The idea that a multinational corporation will be able to resist enshittification forever is pretty cute. These thing happen over the course of many years. They haven’t turned it to shit yet, but it’s basically inevitable isn’t it?

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• funkajunk@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Haha, I didn’t see your comment until now, but I already knew about that and shared the link with another user.

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