Tech Ping
Hard to keep Linux contained. I favor the Red Hat/Fedora/CentOS distros myself. I find Microsoft’s interference with Linux a minor capitulation, as PLAN A was for everyone except a handful of Apple users to be on Microsoft Surface and Windows Mobile. I am more concerned about Google, and its strategy of making Android “FREE” to developers. Microsoft couldn’t let Google have that playground all to itself.
Thew Linux world is a lot more than Debian. Although I should note that Microsoft has an even closer relationship with SUSE.
Debian and its derivatives seem to dominate Linux these days. They don’t have to.
Git is evil.
Gates seems to think he is smart enough to tell the world how to exist. Made a billionaire by selling flawed products since 1981.
“At the moment Microsoft is monopolising Free/Open Source software using GitHub”
No it isn’t.
Github is a code storage service, plain and simple.
Microsoft/Github does not own the rights to code stored on Github.
Uploading code to Github does not make it Microsoft property. Nor does the code creator relinquish any rights by storing it on Github.
There are multiple competitors to Github such as Gitlab and Bitbucket (and I have used both of these services as part of commercial projects).
Plus, switching your codebase from one storage provider to another presents few barriers. Github does NOT have anywhere near a monopoly on git based storage systems.