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@mayel Yeah, I'm really hoping this turns into some more decentralization-focused work on Git, as well as increased funding/support for the GitLab team to improve what they've got.

That said, the number of Microsoft apologists is astounding and incredibly disheartening.

@gabe

This.

Watching people who I thought were smart embracing Microsoft this morning is turning my gut.

@mayel

@jjg @gabe within the logic of capitalism, it makes total sense, so maybe a sign of people stuck in that mindset?

@mayel @jjg Oh, absolutely. One of the worst parts of going through the CS program at my University (and there were a lot of bad parts) was seeing how woefully uninformed the developer (or at least the upcoming developer) community was about the ethics of FLOSS and the inherent flaws of developing software for capitalist industries.

We even had a mandatory ethics course where I thought maybe some of that stuff would be addressed... No dice, though.

gabe 👍

@jjg @mayel Instead we just talked about how it's wrong to steal others' intellectual property 🙄

The degree to which capitalist industry's claws are dug into the public education system is a whole other demon.

@gabe Ew. At least in my CS ethics undergrad course we talked about things like #Therac25 and not writing code that kills people or makes their lives worse.
@mayel @jjg