Hi John, no problem.
I'm not a fan of Microsoft either and I try to do as much as possible with free software and only use proprietary Software if necessary. We shouldn't trust them blindly but I think it is not necessary to panic about the aquisition. As long as everyone oposes vendor lock in the open source projects are free to leave the platform any time. And I said I'm not a lawyer so maby my idea of the regulators stepping in are a bit naive ;-) Regards, Martin 2018-06-06 0:40 GMT+02:00 John Muczynski <[email protected]>: > Dear Martin, > > I would like to respectfully disagree with two of your statements. > > microsoft does not play by the rules. > > Also, they have never been stopped due to their previous anti competitive > behavior. It is unlikely they would lose any legal case in any of the legal > systems when they shut down GitHub. > > That's my take on it. I am feeling rather cynical. > > Kind regards, > Johnny > > > On Tue, Jun 5, 2018, 9:18 AM Martin Weißhaupt < > [email protected]> wrote: > > > GitHub was already a proprietary platform. Microsoft is not stupid, they > > want to get a part of the open source cake and closing GitHub or making > > open source projects suffer would get them into trouble really fast. I'm > > not a lawyer but I think that would qualify as anti competitive behaviour > > which would get the EU or other institutions to intervent. > > > > If they are playing by the rules there is nothing to worry about but > > everyone should be observant about what Microsoft does with GitHub in the > > future. > > > > Regards, > > Martin > > > > 2018-06-05 14:34 GMT+02:00 Kirk Pepperdine <[email protected]>: > > > > > I say good for GitHub.. I don’t think MS will be a problem… At least > not > > > right away. And if they are, it’s pretty easy to move to a new git > home. > > > > > > — Kirk > > > > > > > On Jun 5, 2018, at 1:58 PM, Peter Cheung <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > > > > > > > Codeplex, nokia, robotVM, all dead > > > > > > > > ________________________________ > > > > From: Emilian Bold <[email protected]> > > > > Sent: Tuesday, June 5, 2018 4:15 PM > > > > To: [email protected] > > > > Subject: Microsoft buys GitHub > > > > > > > > Hello, > > > > > > > > I'm a bit worried about Microsoft steering the future of open-source > > > projects' online collaboration and tooling with their GitHub purchase: > > > https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2018/06/04/microsoft- > > > github-empowering-developers/ > > > > > > > > I wonder if there's anything we need to rethink in terms of our > > > project's dependence on GitHub PRs, etc. > > > > > > > > --emi > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------ > --------- > > > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscribe@netbeans. > incubator.apache.org > > > > For additional commands, e-mail: > > [email protected] > > > > > > > > For further information about the NetBeans mailing lists, visit: > > > > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/NETBEANS/Mailing+lists > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > > > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]. > apache.org > > > > > > For further information about the NetBeans mailing lists, visit: > > > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/NETBEANS/Mailing+lists > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >
