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Why is that so hard to believe? America is run by Donald Trump.

The problems with these companies is that developers aren't making technical decisions, it's executives who know nothing about computer science. That's why Windows 10 is such a mess with spyware and adware.

Now they have some FOSS advocate who doesn't really know anything about software or VCS but saw that an internal problem they were trying to solve was making their code base work with git. So he decided it would be really cool for Microsofts image to develop an open source extension of git, instead of actually solving the underlying problems (because he didn't recognize them). Now he's probably got a promotion at Microsoft for "fixing" their problem with git.

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dang|9 years ago

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13559893 and marked it off-topic.

klodolph|9 years ago

If there's something you need to talk about, by all means find a place to talk about it. But if what you want to talk about is how other people are stupid, maybe this is the wrong place for that. I hope that you find the healing that you need.