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You think Microsoft did this "to put OSS into the hands of everyone"? I think it's despicable that so much OSS is on a Microsoft platform considering how hostile Microsoft was towards OSS.

Github existed long before they were bought out by Microsoft.

A company is run by people, with different opinions, when new people get in charge, the company changes as well. Microsoft is not hostile towards Linux and OSS and embraced it, deal with it.

MS is quite hostile towards Linux and OSS.

I wonder what will happen when all those OSS forges ran by non-profit organizations will crumble under the load.

In the end, only for-profit businesses remain in the race, Gitlab, Github, Bitbucket, ...

Crumble under the load of.... Storing text? That everyone has a local offline copy of everywhere?

Text, images, all kinds of documents people use (maybe wrongly) Git for.

But Github is storing billions of those documents in millions of repositories with millions of users, all using bandwidth, CPU, RAM, hard drives, and they trust them to not lose data, and be always available.

Yes, your computer in your garage is not fit to handle that kind of traffic/load.

Why are you promoting "getting OSS into the hands of everyone" as a good thing, while denigrating OSS with the "SJW" pejorative?

So fighting for change is only good when it's the current winners who did it, got it

Telling me you're pushing to a new remote isn't fighting, it's self-promotion under the guise of fighting. Learn the difference.

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