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delichonyesterday at 4:10 PM2 repliesview on HN

I spent a little time looking into it, and it turns out that Microsoft owns an outfit named GitHub, which apparently offers free hosting for open source projects and is used by a lot of open source software makers. And Microsoft has around 4k employees with contributions to OS projects on GitHub. So maybe "biggest" is a lie in light of their anti-OS efforts, but it is at least arguable. Can you propose a bigger one?


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account42today at 12:45 PM

You mean the outfit that has misappropriated the code of those hosted projects to train their commercial code generator which is a very clear violation of the spirit if not the letter of the licenses of many of those projects?

yencabulatoryesterday at 6:17 PM

Microsoft is the biggest supporter of Microsoft gaining market share.

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