On 06/03/2018 06:01 PM, Rick Moen wrote:
For years, I've been politely telling representatives & users of open source
projects (Void Linux, many others) 'Hey, you might want to reconsider
outsourcing your entire source code repos to GitHub, and consider
instead deploying instead one of many actually open source, self-hosted
workalikes such as GitLab.'
I'm betting they'll see nothing wrong with outsourcing to a
proprietary-software firm run by people they don't know and have no
reason to trust, based on this news. I'm glad it works for them.
Did I mention GitLab? ;->
----- Forwarded message from David Krauser via Tech <[email protected]> -----
Date: Sun, 03 Jun 2018 18:51:18 -0400
From: David Krauser via Tech <[email protected]>
To: tech <[email protected]>
Subject: [GoLugTech] Microsoft buys GitHub
Reply-To: David Krauser <[email protected]>, [email protected]
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-06-03/microsoft-is-said-to-have-agreed-to-acquire-coding-site-github
This makes me really uncomfortable.
- dk
https://news.microsoft.com/2018/06/04/microsoft-to-acquire-github-for-7-5-billion/
I hope it's not to late for friendly open-source to get out of gethub.
--
Jimmy Johnson
Devuan Jessie - TDE Trinity R14.0.4 - AMD A8-7600 - EXT4 at sda2
Registered Linux User #380263
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