You’d think it should be less expensive.

But then you’re not thinking of increasing shareholder value.

How dare you!

I use GitHub private repos for my home configuration stuff. So it’s not open source since I’m the only one using it and I don’t want someone else to know how to attack my network.

For certain configurations, self hosting doesn’t make sense. For people like me, who would rather spend his time doing the stuff I care about instead of maintaining the stuff I don’t care about, I’m okay giving Microsoft some “control” over my code for the convenience.

That said, I am thinking about moving my FOSS code off of GitHub since that is an option. I’d have to see their CI/CD pipelines though.

They can vary the terms of the license for future commits.

The license seems similar in terms of effect to the MIT license while still giving them control over trademarks and images.

I’d call this a more restrictive form of MIT but not as copyleft as GPL.

What I was implying is that I don’t know how useful the laws are if they aren’t going to be enforced and if the penalty for breaking the law is a slap on the wrist.

There was a story how one guy recorded himself deleting each and every comment he made. The video was like 2-3 hours long. Manually one by one. Only to find that they restored his comments the next day.

How reddit hasn’t been sued by the California attorney general I’ll never know.

I usually do thepresident@whitehouse.gov

Works most of the time.