Re: Schneier, Data and Goliath: no hope for privacy

D <nospam@example.net> writes:

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Quite mysteriously, all sorts of otherwise respectable open-source
software developers are happy to use GitHub even though it's owned
by M$. So even having ditched their software long ago, M$ are now
very hard to avoid online if, ironically, you want to use, and
especially work on, open-source software. I find that truely
unfathomable, but others barely seem to see my problem with it.

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This is a great mystery to me! I have no clue how so many open source
users can be so clueless! =( They also loooooove slck and
discord. That's revolting! IRC works percectly fine, and if you need
blinken lights, you can just add some of the numerous web IRC programs
out there, or at least use matrix or xmpp.

Lol---well said.  (I call Discord a Christmas Tree.  And Slack is no
different.)  Quite right.  And USENET, which is way more appropriate for
technical discussion than IRC.

I think the reason must be that many open source users are young and
naive and do not remembre how M$ tried to close down linux decades
ago.

That's very likely part of the reason.

When I teach, I make it a point to bring up these things. Sadly the
students then go on to work, and get stuck in github and various
proprietary tools. But such is life! We must continue to fight the
good fight. =)

Teaching can only go so far.