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You're already uploading the big one. If you're going to trust Microsoft with your actual data, who cares about the metadata?


No, you're just uploading the source code (although, in many cases nowadays, that's the important stuff).

The "actual data" doesn't get uploaded to Github but Microsoft has been working on getting their hands on that too -- see Azure, Windows 10 telemetry, etc.

(I used to actually like Microsoft Windows -- having ran every consumer version from 3.0 up to 7 and every business version from WFWG 3.11 up to 2008 -- and even earned several Microsoft certifications. I even taught courses on Microsoft server operating systems at a .edu for a few years. But... I've probably only spent 5 minutes on a Windows 8.x machine (and it wasn't mine) and have never used Windows 10 (or 2012 or 2016). Unless something major happens, I will never again run any Microsoft operating system on anything I own. For the last several years, I have simply been unable to trust them as a company.)


What about all the people who don't use any Microsoft products (yet)?

I don't really get the deal with github and privacy right now. However it is obvious that this could upset many OS devs who avoided MS




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