[kitchenkarma]

I don't think Microsoft is doing incredible things. They are baiting the developers and just use the strategy of locking people into their constellation of spying services. Acquiring GitHub they got access to all private repositiories and insight to what other companies are doing. This is despicable.

[urda]

> Acquiring GitHub they got access to all private repositiories and insight to what other companies are doing. This is despicable.

Spreading disinformation in 2019 is despicable itself.

- Microsoft already handles data from competitors in other portions of their corporation. If it was discovered that Microsoft and / or GitHub actors were acting in bad faith with private repositories, that would immediately erode the trust of their Azure platform.

- Most projects are more than just the code. It's often build toolchains, pipelines, and other specific knowledge around said code.

[oblio]

You're not looking at the big picture. Microsoft already has - and has had for 30 years! - the most valuable data in the world flowing through Excel and Word.

Code is cool, but they could already know everything every company in the world is doing.

I don't think they're abusing the trust put into them, we'd know by now.

They'd also probably be blown to smithereens by governments and other corporations, through lawsuits.