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FSF Urges Moving Off Microsoft's GitHub to Protest Windows 11's Requiring TPM 2.0 (news.slashdot.org)

submitted 3 days ago by [email protected] to c/opensource

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TPM is a dedicated chip or firmware enabling hardware-level security, housing encryption keys, certificates, passwords, and sensitive data, "and shielding them from unauthorized access," Microsoft senior product manager Steven Hosking wrote last month, declaring TPM 2.0 to be "a non-negotiable standard for the future of Windows."

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I'm so tired of projects being like "We're open-source" and then they're hosted on GitHub, using Discord and whatever fucking other awful tooling they can get their hands on. Thanks guys. I'll definitely check out your project, yes.

[–] refalo 28 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

how does that make the project any less open-source?

what's next, shaming project owners for living in a house that they pay for with a corporate job?

we get it, you hate capitalism, but that doesn't mean other people want to go live in the woods too... gotta be realistic :)

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 days ago

Ewww did you type this on a computer made by BIG TECH? How do you call yourself a supporter of the free world when you're using tech that had precious metals mined by CHILDREN?!

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 days ago (3 children)

They are still technically open-source. I'm not saying that they're not. But they're actively alienating users who want to use open-source, because those users cannot get support, report bugs or contribute to the project without using proprietary software.

[–] FizzyOrange 7 points 2 days ago

How extreme do you have to be to only use websites if they are open source?? That's roughly 0% of the web.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

What? I use Firefox and git to bworse, commend and post issues on open source tools hosted on github.

Just tell me you dislike github (understandable) but not that "those hosted on github" are not open source tools... That depends on the license they are following, not the tools they are using.

And by the way git is open source as well as the browser you need to access github.

I think you are getting way too far.

Said so, I host all my open source code on my private instance of forgejo, which is way more open source than github, but I don't allow registration (its my private instance, after all) so where do you put me at?

Just to remember that even the GPL v3 doesn't say you must provide support or a ticketing system.

[–] Kissaki 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

they’re actively alienating users who want to use open-source, because those users cannot get support, report bugs or contribute to the project without using proprietary software

You can still use their source and software though.

Surely, they have their reasons for choosing GitHub over other alternatives.

I know I do, when I choose GitHub over others. (I'm not choosing Discord though.)