Microsoft, FOSS FUD, and Openwashing
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GitHub devs warn Microsoft 'ditch that contract with ICE or lose us' [iophk: "at the end of the day, it is still the old Microsoft; the so-called developers didn't quit then and won't quit now"]
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GitHub users threaten exodus unless Microsoft cancels ICE contract
Ninety-seven open-source developers have threatened to move their projects from the source code repository GitHub, which is now owned by Microsoft, unless the software behemoth ends its contract with the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
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Microsoft’s ICE involvement illustrates tech’s denial problem
More than asking what kind of people would work in a tech capacity to provide technical solutions for genocide, it's interesting to wonder how they felt about it. Was the suffering of others an abstract, or were they more like former Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski, mocking and pointedly indifferent? Perhaps they felt like Microsoft employees, some of whom this week repudiated the company between news of the US government's human rights violations in regard to immigrants and asylum-seekers, and Microsoft's role in providing tech solutions for ICE (US Immigration and Customs Enforcement).
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I get it. I really do. Yet when your hands are covered in blood, the time to stand around stuttering in disbelief hoping someone else will do something has long passed.
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Coders To Microsoft: “Break Ties With ICE Or Lose Us As GitHub Users”
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Open Source Software: Great for Engineers, Tougher for In-House Attorneys [Ed: The usual lawyers' FUD against FOSS as if proprietary software carries no legal risk/liability...]
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Open source: it's not the code, it's people [Ed: Malicious site Techradar (better not click, there are malicious scripts) now does puff pieces for Black Duck. This is like a Microsoft proxy, which was created -- by its own admission -- to attack the GPL/suppress adoption]
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New releases from Facebook and Google, CPTPP's potential open source impact, and more news
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