Yesterday's twitter feeds were a hoot. "We're the New Microsoft!" "You can trust us now!"
BitBucket is already advertising their migration plans. (I've had a BB plan for years. git is a Distributed version control system, and I've learned to have fallbacks over the years.) GitHub needed a buyer and there were a lot of worse options: Oracle. Computer Associates. AT&T. Hopefully the founders made good money from their hard work. I've been a paying member for years, and got my money's worth. They either keep earning my money, or I move elsewhere. MS acquisitions under the New Management have a mixed track record. As do, pretty much, all acquisitions, ever. There are lots of communities who put everything into GitHub and use it for more than just a git repository, and those communities are going to have to do a lot more work if they want to migrate. At the moment, nothing has really changed, and it won't at least until the deal closed (estimated "later this year") and Microsoft starts setting rates and restrictions and new Windows-only APIs and Professional/Ultimate versioning, and then Microsoft Teams integration and features that only work through VS Code and then the folks that don't need that can shop around and move their processes elsewhere. Or maybe Embrace, Enhance, Extend, Extinguish expired with Ballmer and it's a new day. Make sure you have a towel handy and Don't Panic. On Tue, Jun 5, 2018 at 10:00 AM, Alan Bourke <[email protected]> wrote: > It's fun if just to watch the consternation. > > I don't imagine much will change. > > > -- > Alan Bourke > alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm > [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/CACW6n4vRxh+49tvGKBWt8k8zEF=0ZJAGLT2wbE+vCD75ywDa=a...@mail.gmail.com ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
