Hacker News: 12378qshttps://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=12378qsHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Wed, 28 Oct 2026 15:14:30 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by 12378qs in "Microsoft offers mass buyouts for roughly a quarter of its workforce"]]>Whether it was a necessity or not, they hired many mediocre but dominant open source people up to around 2022 who introduced CoCs, forced the projects to move to GitHub etc. and push for permissive licenses.

And they did fire some of them in 2025/2026.

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