Github is "software development as social media".
Thus all you have is backbiting and gossip as 90% of the "development".
Additionally Microsoft encouraged the additions of additional writings
alongside the licenses such as "Codes of Conduct."
So now you have your licenses (maybe), and then extra writings (CoC)s
that can be incorporated if the thing goes to court.
Git was supposed to be the opposite of this: decentralized,
uncontrollable.
On 2019-11-28 04:17, Richard Stallman wrote:
[[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]]
[[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]]
[[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]]
GitHub's encouragement of sloppy licensing, no licensing, or licensing
under only a single version of the GPL, has done terrible harm to our
community.
GitHub was so bad for free software, all along, that I could imagine
Microsoft's making it less bad, or making it more bad. We should
judge by what actually happens, not by prejudice.
Keep in mind that Apple is much worse than Microsoft.
