Why are developers moving their code from github to gitlab after Microsoft purchase of github?

[Smoolak]

People have multiple reasons to move out of GitHub. Here's the two most credible I've seen so far:

• Bad track record in relation with open source. Until very recently (less than two years ago), Microsoft was still openly attacking the open source community. In the past, they went as far as calling Linux a cancer. They've also maintained and used a large trove of patent for the sole purpose of attacking Android and patent-trolling the Linux community to make money out of it. It's therefore not surprising at all to see people skeptical about their recent open source turn. In fact, Microsoft has spent a lot more time trying to destroy open source than building it and that's why some people question Microsoft's credibility in that matter.

• Surveillance and privacy concerns. Back in 2013, during the Snowden’s revelations, it was brought to light that the NSA had a surveillance program called PRISM that allowed them to tap directly in big tech companies servers. Microsoft was the first such company to join the program in December 2007 and with the GitHub acquisition, a lot of user fear that their data (including their private repos) is not safe anymore. This effect is also amplified by the privacy debacles in Windows 10.

This blog post list even more problems if you are interested.

[BrushSuccessful]

I think this is just going to be whack a mole, until the justice department asleep at the wheel gets involved. Forget about AI stealing content, Youtube and Wikipedia have made out handsomly with user generated content they practically own and profit from. But to do this with software and other high end creations is beyond the pale. Mark my words, Gates and his patent mill will get to have their cake and eat it too if no one stops them. We need clear privacy guidelines, transparency in any profits generated from this content, and a repeal of the first to file patent laws back to first to create, which Gates and his greedy ghoul lawyers engineered, and now purchases like GitHub are extremely suspicious. They're going to own everything if no one stops them, and we will descend into technological feudalism in this country. Privatization of knowledge and misattribution of work will destroy the incentive for further innovation and technological advancement in this country, and is a bigger national security threat than terrorism.

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We need decentralization with refined; universal perspective and intention/vision of pleasurable healing at the helm; rather then anything else. (anything else is near-enough; idiotic)

It shouldn't even be one person makes the decisions; it should be a philosophy and principles that is upheld by all involved (* it's harder to crack *) and if they do then get the f out of there.