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Organic Maps migrates to Forgejo due to GitHub account blocked by Microsoft. (programming.dev)
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[–] merdaverse@lemmy.world 5 points 5 days ago (1 children)

A cynical explanation would be using the EEE theory to explain all of this.

A more nuanced one would be that corporations benefit from open source since it creates an easier pipeline to onboard engineers and they also benefit from the free labor that people put into the projects out of passion. Whether they want to kill OSS after embracing it is debatable, but they definitely want to have as much leverage on it as possible.

[–] Melatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 5 days ago

Bill Gates stated: "One thing we have got to change in our strategy – allowing Office documents to be rendered very well by other people's browsers is one of the most destructive things we could do to the company. We have to stop putting any effort into this and make sure that Office documents very well depend on proprietary IE capabilities. Anything else is suicide for our platform. This is a case where Office has to avoid doing something to destroy Windows."

That Wikipedia is a gold mine of evil.