>>29232After. Although I don't know how much of that really has to do with MS. At some point, people just associated cockli with spam, even though gmail's not really better. The only big difference, obviously, is that cockli represents a minority of people, so they're easier to ostracize and get away with it.
GitHub hosted copyleft software, but they weren't copyleft themselves, so they owned the platform. Even before the buyout, I feel like people should have understood that the platform could be owned by anyone. I would say the free software people did, because they see things more in terms of ethics. That's how you anticipate things like this: you think about what's logically feasible and treat it as inevitable. That's how the fsf basically anticipated the Snowden leaks.
If GitHub weren't the de facto standard for git repos, I don't think a DMCA would have been a big deal. Monopolies have a way of fabricating issues that ultimately trickle down and hurt minorities the most. Like how sanctions against social media sometimes remove protections that benefit smaller social media services.
>>29233For some software, bug reports are basically impromptu user manuals.