[LAU] Some disturbing news

[Paul Davis]

On Sun, Jun 3, 2018 at 11:24 AM, David Kastrup <dak at gnu.org> wrote:

> ​Well, every year has been "next year will be the year of Linux on the
>
> desktop" for 20 years at least, but it's still Microsoft who rules in
> spite of EULAs and privacy agreements that have moved from insolent to
> raving madness.
>

​There's never going to be a year of Linux on the desktop. ​


>  At any rate, they have strongholds and not so strong holds.
>

​The point remains: MS has been almost totally unsuccessful in any of its
attempts to kill off open source​ en masse or per project.


> Being owned by Microsoft will have technical consequences, but it will
> also have legal consequences.  The usage conditions will become more and
> more absurd and people will grit their teeth and continue while
> Microsoft sells all their private data to whoever wants to pay for it.
>

​Whether it is google or github, it remains the case that if you are
receiving a service for free, you should understand that you are probably
not the customer, but rather the product.

There are alternatives to GH, and I believe there will always be
alternatives to GH. Just as many of us jumped ship when sourceforge jumped
the shark, people will migrate away from GH towards the new alternatives
that show up if and when MS leads it off the cliff.​
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