There are a number of empirical signs of the breakdown of boundaries between Free Software and Microsoft, such as the “Windows Subsystem for Linux”, but most insidious is the movement of GNU development processes onto the Microsoft-hosted platform, GitHub.
If one goes to the GNU Home site where they list their official packages there are some alarming observations to be made:
When you click on: https://gnu.org/software/nana/
Where you actually end up is: https://github.com/pjmaker/nana/
I find this deceptive and very concerning. For a number of important reasons, hosting GNU development on a proprietary Microsoft platform should be verboten. And for users to be programatically redirected away from the GNU site to the Microsoft site is ethically criminal, and foreboding institutional death.
Now try these other GNU projects:
https://gnu.org/software/macchanger
https://gnu.org/software/jwhois
https://gnu.org/software/fribidi
https://gnu.org/software/httptunnel
https://gnu.org/software/which/
https://gnu.org/software/guile-dbi
And then there are other disturbing development projects – if you take a look: GNU Bison consistently sees quite a lot of very current activity on GitHub (https://github.com/akimd/bison); and Flex, an important component of GNU Bison, is located entirely GitHub, provided under a BSD license.
https://gnu.org/software/flex/flex.html –> https://github.com/westes/flex ; https://github.com/westes/flex/blob/master/README.md .
GNU Radio, also a GNU project, goes a step further and conducts the major parts of its development cycle on GitHub. It’s not clear that they use the GNU sites for anything other than mirrors.
https://github.com/gnuradio/gnuradio/
https://github.com/gnuradio/gr-dpd/
https://github.com/gnuradio/gnuradio/pulls/
https://github.com/gnuradio/gnuradio/issues/
— source techrights.org | Thomas Grzybowski | 07.06.20