Comment on Github Banned a Ton of Adult Game Developers and Won’t Explain Why
UnspecificGravity@piefed.social 3 days agoI think they are testing the waters of just open warfare against indie developers. Microsoft has no interest in platforming their competitors. They start with the adult games because no one is going to defend them. Once the precedent is set, they go after everyone else. They do the same thing with porn as a vehicle to attack free speech.
ampersandrew@lemmy.world 3 days ago
I don’t see it. Indie developers would comprise the vast majority of open source projects. Many of them add value to their own products, and they know it, which is why they’re largely a services company now. And the timing is so close to everything going on with adult content in other places.
UnspecificGravity@piefed.social 3 days ago
What about the last 20 years of Microsoft make you think that adding value to their products has anything to do with their business model?
Tech companies don’t make new shit anymore, and they haven’t done it for a long time. All they do now is steal our shit and sell it back to us.
ampersandrew@lemmy.world 3 days ago
The part where they tried to make an Apple app store and it didn’t take. The open ecosystem of Windows is the thing that allows it to continue to exist and dominate. And the open ecosystem of open source software actively enhances their ability to sell companies server infrastructure, which makes them more money than Windows does.