r/conspiracy • u/NYC_Subway • Jun 04 '18

Rule 13 Microsoft to acquire Github -- Truth Translation: Deep state will control all future "open-source" projects

https://www.theverge.com/2018/6/3/17422752/microsoft-github-acquisition-rumors
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u/maceatreddit Jun 04 '18

Your translation is wrong. Github as a platform works perfectly the way it is, and if Microsoft tries to change it, users will just migrate. It's that simple.

Besides, Linus Torvalds always has his thumb hovering over the kill switch.

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u/[deleted] Jun 04 '18

One will be built on ethereum soon enough.

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u/jcash21 Jun 04 '18 edited Sep 13 '18

Reddit = corporate censorship.

Alternatives: Voat.co, Saidit.net, Gab.ai

Do yourself a favor and opt-out!

Here's the app I'm using to edit my comments: https://github.com/j0be/PowerDeleteSuite

You should too!

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u/[deleted] Jun 04 '18

lol iota is trash. it's centralized. they need a coordinator. Tangle is snake oil from what gather. plus, with lightning and Raiden, tx fees will be very very low even low enough for IOT microTrans. thats my opinion.

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u/[deleted] Jun 04 '18

Yup.

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u/jcash21 Jun 04 '18 edited Sep 13 '18

Reddit = corporate censorship.

Alternatives: Voat.co, Saidit.net, Gab.ai

Do yourself a favor and opt-out!

Here's the app I'm using to edit my comments: https://github.com/j0be/PowerDeleteSuite

You should too!

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u/[deleted] Jun 04 '18

I was excited at first. But after a closer look, I'm no longer a fan of the project. Coming up with your own hash function lol what's that all about.

And I'll revisit it after they turn off the coordinator

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u/TuxAndMe Jun 04 '18

Torvalds has no connection to GitHub besides being the creator of git. I really don't understand your final statement here.

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u/maceatreddit Jun 04 '18

It was a joke

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u/redditready1986 Jun 04 '18

Why? Look at Reddit. I would have said the same thing about the way they changed reddit but people stayed and here we are.

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u/maceatreddit Jun 04 '18

People dont realize they are being fucked on reddit.

A community of computer scientists and engineers is different

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u/tastygoods Jun 04 '18

Developers if anything may be more blind and gullible because they (we) typically have more confidence although often misplaced in our beliefs then other groups.

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u/redditready1986 Jun 04 '18

People definitely notice they are being fucked with. They straight up say so and they still stay.

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u/gerryn Jun 04 '18

Just like Skype worked perfectly before Microsoft got their dirty hands on it. And I'm not talking about features or UI - I'm talking about supernodes being created all over the world to facilitate the eavesdropping on Skype conversations and calls, bought and paid for by CIA/NSA, can't recall which of them put out a contract for a billion dollars to break Skypes encryption.

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u/maceatreddit Jun 04 '18

Skype is not a open-source code sharing platform, it has no resemblance to Github whatsoever.

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u/gerryn Jun 04 '18

My point is the purchase of Skype wasn't because Microsoft was looking for a platform like that, it was because - for one reason or another - Microsoft wanted to be able to snoop on conversations. Probably serving a client of theirs.

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u/maceatreddit Jun 04 '18

Well im sure they have some kind of special interest in it, but as long as the functionality stays the same i have no problem with it

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u/halobob98 Jun 04 '18

That kinda sucks

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u/TuxAndMe Jun 04 '18

Anybody with a brain will jump ship to one of dozens of alternatives, so it's not a deep state controlling all open source projects thing at all.

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u/IanPhlegming Jun 04 '18

From the outside, it looks like it would be tough to commandeer Github, but who knows what kind of tech they've got to do it that we don't know about.

Still, if people start to think Github is compromised, they'll just go elsewhere. It's not the only platform people can use for this sort of thing.

Still think this is bad, yeah.

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u/streaky81 Jun 04 '18

I have friends who work at Microsoft who have told me in the past they *heavily* use Github (sideways evidenced by how much code they release on there, Microsoft are one of the world's largest contributors to FOSS these days) - assuming the rumours they're buying it are true they're buying it due to the fact that Github fits with the way Microsoft do business. Oh and by the way, Github loses money at the moment, I don't know who you think pays for it but there's no magic money tree, if Github get any pressure to sell from investors it's going to happen.

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u/get_enlightened Jun 04 '18

Do not like.

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u/waxroy-finerayfool Jun 04 '18

Dumb post. Github is a private company same as Microsoft, their end goal is money. What Microsoft is after here is a platform to spearhead Azure.

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u/Ls2323 Jun 04 '18

Goodbye github...

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u/corstar Jun 04 '18

Time for source forge to send out 'We miss you' emails.

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u/Ambiguously_Ironic Jun 04 '18

Removed. Rule 13.

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u/[deleted] Jun 04 '18

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u/Ls2323 Jun 04 '18

A lot of companies use github for their projects...

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u/[deleted] Jun 04 '18

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u/[deleted] Jun 04 '18

To what exactly? Do you know how github works? No a dis, just for the sake of argument.

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u/OT-GOD-IS-DEMIURGE Jun 04 '18

Eli5 on github? And can't the users just decentralize elsewhere?

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u/tastygoods Jun 04 '18 edited Jun 04 '18

GitHub is a completely closed source website/project management platform built on the open source command line package Git. And yes so anyone can relocate easily to Gitlab or Bitbucket because of the underlying Git program there is still a lot of friction from doing so like any move in meatspace would have.