[laurentb]

not really, Framasoft is a French company that develops a collection of open source alternatives to popular software.

It's the same as if Microsoft was posting a blog on its own msdn.com domain for something related to visual studio or SharePoint

[igorkraw]

Small correction, it's a non-profit association that can be placed in the same cluster as Mozilla, the EFF, the CCC or the Linux Foundation (i.e., the good guys if you care about FOSS and an open software and internet world)

[dewey]

> It's the same as if Microsoft was posting a blog on its own msdn.com domain for something related to visual studio or SharePoint

Which underlines the point that the parent is making. Normal users are not the ones reading things related to SharePoint. Apple does their announcements on the apple.com domain and not on applnews.com.

> I think this is a good example of what separates HN users from normal users.

[detaro]

Normal users are also not the ones primarily expected to read release notes for release candidates for the Peertube server software. Sharepoint is arguably a good comparison: run by administrators for users - it's just that peertube is more interesting to nerds that are both in one (although I'm sure there's some folks with sharepoint at home...).

[ekianjo]

> Normal users are not the ones reading things related to SharePoint.

Normal users would never ever find this blog post in the first place. You are trying to fix a problem that does not exist.

[cameronh90]

> msdn.com

Doesn't exist any more. It's now all under microsoft.com (e.g. devblogs.microsoft.com).