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Microsoft Outages Yet Again and Microsoft's ‘GitHub’ as an Attack on Free Software

Posted by Roy Schestowitz on Feb 08, 2023

More GPL Violations and Upcoming Free Software Foundation (FSF) Talk by Richard M. Stallman

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Microsoft Outlook and Teams suffer another global outage

↺ Microsoft Outlook and Teams suffer another global outage

> Microsoft on Tuesday said it was investigating issues with collaboration suite Teams and email service Outlook as users across the globe struggled to access their emails. This marks the second such disruption in less than two weeks for Microsoft online services.

If you’re into the FOSS/tech ecosystem. You’ve probably heard of ‘GitHub’

↺ If you’re into the FOSS/tech ecosystem. You’ve probably heard of ‘GitHub’

> Many people don’t know about the difference between open-source and proprietary shareware. I’ve seen many cases where people use GitHub releases to distribute proprietary binaries of their programs. Some don’t even bother to license their software, they just dump it on GitHub, so even though you can see the source code you’re not legally allowed to modify / re-use it for your own project.

> Your projects don’t have to be explicitly licensed under a FOSS license. There are plenty of web-based git forges. GitLab, Codeberg, Sourcehut to name a few. Isn’t it ironic that GitHub itself isn’t “oPen sOuRce”? Git is meant to be used over email, decentralized

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