Re: [fpc-other] M$ has bought GitHub

2018-06-15 Thread Santiago A.
El 05/06/2018 a las 20:24, Graeme Geldenhuys escribió: News just in M$ has bought GitHub. https://news.softpedia.com/news/microsoft-takes-over-github-521380.shtml What a sad day it is. It seems that one day the whole Internet will be owned and run my four companies: Apple, Google, Microsof

Re: [fpc-other] M$ has bought GitHub

2018-06-08 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 2018-06-06 10:25, Marco van de Voort wrote: > Actually Microsoft is quite a large cloud provider, As the saying goes "There is NO cloud - only somebody else's computer." My personal opinion: Why must I store my data and my applications on somebody else's computer - often regulated

Re: [fpc-other] M$ has bought GitHub

2018-06-08 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 2018-06-05 22:36, Stéphane Aulery wrote: > already install a basic git service with a web server and tools of your > choice for a limited effort. Exactly, a one line command is all that is required to give read-only access to public repositories. The system stays idle when nobody is cloning re

Re: [fpc-other] M$ has bought GitHub

2018-06-08 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 2018-06-07 09:01, el es wrote: > If you have time to manage your own hosting server* AND do the programming > work > AND have life/hobbies/family outside of work... wow... for others in many > cases > it's more like 'choose any 2' choice. Like I said, I already have a public facing server in

Re: [fpc-other] M$ has bought GitHub

2018-06-07 Thread el es
On 05/06/18 22:15, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: > On 2018-06-05 20:45, Michalis Kamburelis wrote: >> Or you can move to GitLab, which offers similar features in many ways. > > Why. Git is a distributed version control system. I really don't need a > 3rd party hosting provider when I can do it on my ow

Re: [fpc-other] M$ has bought GitHub

2018-06-06 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
On 06/06/18 09:30, Marco van de Voort wrote: Actually Microsoft is quite a large cloud provider, and can afford topartition its offerings and isn't as dependent on a single point (orcontinent) hosting as others. But they are still American through-and-through, with federal scrutiny of their

Re: [fpc-other] M$ has bought GitHub

2018-06-06 Thread Marco van de Voort
In our previous episode, Mark Morgan Lloyd said: > > What a sad day it is. It seems that one day the whole Internet will beowned > > and run my four companies: Apple, Google, Microsoft and Facebook.I guess > > I'll be doing what the Free Pascal project has done all along...Host my own > > reposi

Re: [fpc-other] M$ has bought GitHub

2018-06-06 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
On 05/06/18 19:45, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: News just in M$ has bought GitHub. https://news.softpedia.com/news/microsoft-takes-over-github-521380.shtml What a sad day it is. It seems that one day the whole Internet will beowned and run my four companies: Apple, Google, Microsoft and Faceboo

Re: [fpc-other] M$ has bought GitHub

2018-06-06 Thread Marco van de Voort
In our previous episode, Graeme Geldenhuys said: > > Oh God, yes I forgot about those. Amazon is also spreading its tentacles > everywhere and with microphones (smart speakers) planted in every other > home. What is this world coming too? Everybody so eager to loose their > freedom and privacy. Se

Re: [fpc-other] M$ has bought GitHub

2018-06-05 Thread Stéphane Aulery
Le 05/06/2018 à 21:45, Michalis Kamburelis a écrit : Graeme Geldenhuys > wrote: News just in  M$ has bought GitHub. https://news.softpedia.com/news/microsoft-takes-over-github-521380.shtml What a sad day it is. It seems that one day the who

Re: [fpc-other] M$ has bought GitHub

2018-06-05 Thread Ralf Quint
On 6/5/2018 12:19 PM, Marco van de Voort wrote: In our previous episode, Graeme Geldenhuys said: What a sad day it is. It seems that one day the whole Internet will be owned and run my four companies: Apple, Google, Microsoft and Facebook. Well, there is always Amazon and Oracle :-) Talking a

Re: [fpc-other] M$ has bought GitHub

2018-06-05 Thread geneb
On Tue, 5 Jun 2018, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: On 2018-06-05 20:19, Marco van de Voort wrote: owned and run my four companies: Apple, Google, Microsoft and Facebook. Well, there is always Amazon and Oracle :-) Oh God, yes I forgot about those. Amazon is also spreading its tentacles everywhere

Re: [fpc-other] M$ has bought GitHub

2018-06-05 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 2018-06-05 20:45, Michalis Kamburelis wrote: > Or you can move to GitLab, which offers similar features in many ways. Why. Git is a distributed version control system. I really don't need a 3rd party hosting provider when I can do it on my own public server. https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Dist

Re: [fpc-other] M$ has bought GitHub

2018-06-05 Thread Luca Olivetti
El 05/06/18 a les 21:22, José Mejuto ha escrit: El 05/06/2018 a las 20:24, Graeme Geldenhuys escribió: I've had plans to move many of my projects off SourceForge to GitHub Hello, Try GitLab... Or bitbucket Bye -- Luca ___ fpc-other maillist -

Re: [fpc-other] M$ has bought GitHub

2018-06-05 Thread Dimitrios Chr. Ioannidis via fpc-other
Στις 5/6/2018 10:45 μμ, ο Michalis Kamburelis έγραψε: Graeme Geldenhuys > wrote: News just in  M$ has bought GitHub. https://news.softpedia.com/news/microsoft-takes-over-github-521380.shtml Or you can move to GitLab, which offers simila

Re: [fpc-other] M$ has bought GitHub

2018-06-05 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 2018-06-05 20:19, Marco van de Voort wrote: >> owned and run my four companies: Apple, Google, Microsoft and Facebook. > Well, there is always Amazon and Oracle :-) Oh God, yes I forgot about those. Amazon is also spreading its tentacles everywhere and with microphones (smart speakers) planted

Re: [fpc-other] M$ has bought GitHub

2018-06-05 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 2018-06-05 20:22, José Mejuto wrote: > Try GitLab... And who is going to buy them when they are big enough. No thanks. I've made up my mind. I'll be hosting my own Git repos from now onwards - I already have the infrastructure in place (currently hosting web servers, NNTP server, a mail server

Re: [fpc-other] M$ has bought GitHub

2018-06-05 Thread Michalis Kamburelis
Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: > News just in M$ has bought GitHub. > > https://news.softpedia.com/news/microsoft-takes-over-github-521380.shtml > > What a sad day it is. It seems that one day the whole Internet will be > owned and run my four companies: Apple, Google, Microsoft and Facebook. > I

Re: [fpc-other] M$ has bought GitHub

2018-06-05 Thread Marco van de Voort
In our previous episode, Graeme Geldenhuys said: > What a sad day it is. It seems that one day the whole Internet will be > owned and run my four companies: Apple, Google, Microsoft and Facebook. Well, there is always Amazon and Oracle :-) ___ fpc-other

Re: [fpc-other] M$ has bought GitHub

2018-06-05 Thread José Mejuto
El 05/06/2018 a las 20:24, Graeme Geldenhuys escribió: I've had plans to move many of my projects off SourceForge to GitHub Hello, Try GitLab... -- ___ fpc-other maillist - fpc-other@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/mailm

Re: [fpc-other] M$ has bought GitHub

2018-06-05 Thread Luca Manganelli
For me, the acquisition of Monsanto by Bayer is worst :-( Il mar 5 giu 2018 20:41 Graeme Geldenhuys ha scritto: > News just in M$ has bought GitHub. > > https://news.softpedia.com/news/microsoft-takes-over-github-521380.shtml > > What a sad day it is. It seems that one day the whole Interne

[fpc-other] M$ has bought GitHub

2018-06-05 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
News just in M$ has bought GitHub. https://news.softpedia.com/news/microsoft-takes-over-github-521380.shtml What a sad day it is. It seems that one day the whole Internet will be owned and run my four companies: Apple, Google, Microsoft and Facebook. I guess I'll be doing what the Free Pasca