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TLDR; the 90’s happened. Delete your github account because Microsoft is evil. I’m surprised this article got this far because it really doesn’t add anything unique to discussions that are already happening.

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Putting personal sentiment aside (delete github account part) an article like this is needed to sum up and justify developer worries that are scattered through discussions here and other online communities.

That’s my whole point. Without the part about deleting your account and the unnecessarily long introduction to what github is this article is a bullet point list of what Microsoft did in the 90’s. (With the exception of the telemetry and skype acquisition) Anyone can look up this history.

not all of us witnessed the 90's..

Read this stuff: http://www.catb.org/esr/halloween/

And after you do, remember that Google, Apple, Amazon, etc. have also read those documents and now they're smarter about hiding it.

Also, Microsoft has changed and we're not living in the 90's anymore.

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