So MICROS~1 bought Github and everybody's freaking out right now trying to re-host their projects on someone else's service.

THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU STORE YOUR DATA IN THE CLOWN.

The Clown is just someone else's computer and they can and will fuck you. If it's not on your computer, it's not under your control. Why do you all keep doing this to yourselves??

Stop hitting yourself. Seriously, stop it.

Anyway, this is your periodic reminder that Microsoft is a vile garbage fire of a company.

"We love developers, and we love open source developers," he said.

Nadella stressed that Microsoft should be judged by the "recent past" for good reason: because just beyond the recent past is the less-recent past. A past when CEO Steve Ballmer called Linux a "cancer" and the company went to great lengths to force people into the Microsoft eco-system.

This unpleasant past was summarized by Nadella as a "journey" that Microsoft had gone through with the open source community. Well that's one way of describing it. We'd note that Steve Spielberg's 1971 movie Duel was also a journey, with one man on a lovely cross-country journey... while another in a truck tries to run him off the road.

Nadella is very keen for people to imagine a new Microsoft that doesn't use its power to screw over everyone it meets.

Here's just one example of how MICROS~1 loves open source:

Microsoft threatened to move its research facilities out of the UK if the government went ahead with plans to promote open source standards.

Cabinet Officer Francis Maude outlined plans at the time to shift the UK to the .odf Open Document Format and away from Microsoft's proprietary .doc and .docx formats. [...]

"Microsoft phoned Conservative MPs with Microsoft R&D facilities in their constituencies and said we will close them down in your constituencies if this goes through," Hilton said. "We just resisted. You have to be brave."

I don't use any Microsoft products, and neither should you.

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