@coyote wait, a story about a corporation appropriating open source code is being supressed on a far left site?? Bonkers
Date: 2021-12-25 14:44 -0600
Moderator: pushcx [https://lobste.rs/messages?to=pushcx]
Story: Microsoft is forking open source repos and changing license and copyright information [https://lobste.rs/s/wawy4v/microsoft_is_forking_open_source_repos]
Action: deleted story
Reason: Yeah we're not going to get out the torches and pitchforks for a buggy bot on literally Christmas, please chill.
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Meh. I think pushcx had it right.
@DeveloperMemes Oh boy that's so sad. What world are we living in even... 😹
@linuxtavern @DeveloperMemes I don't think it's real, but it does suck that M$ bought github
@linuxtavern @DeveloperMemes oof - this is a bit stale now. Microsoft had a good response explaining why this happened and apologized.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29685628
As much as I'm ready to sharpen my pitchfork for Microsoft, this wasn't this opportunity. ;-)
@linuxtavern @DeveloperMemes It's been reverted. Here is the apology.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29685628
@DeveloperMemes embrace extend extinguish
@DeveloperMemes Hey you should submit a takedown request to..... oh.....
@DeveloperMemes@social.cybre.town it look bad, maybe it's not that bad : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29683471 
@DeveloperMemes Is this a real PR? Once a license is legally owned by Microsoft, they can change it at will, even make it proprietary.
@DeveloperMemes At the time of this toot, the commit does not exist: https://github.com/microsoft/grpc_bench/search?q=LICENSE+updated&type=commits
