They see something good in the project, want to make it better, so they
buy it up. If they leave the project to do what it wants and just give
it funding to realize its goals and share some of the tech. back with
them, that's alright. If it doesn't, it could go any number of ways.
The truth of
But maybe we can explore this 2001 issue.
Here's a 2018 story.
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1002696910266773505.html
On Wed, 6 Jun 2018, 6:18 pm Peter C. Ndikuwera, wrote:
> Lol. Guess the part where I said "history" with a wink went over some
> people's heads.
>
> On Wed, 6 Jun 2018,
Lol. Guess the part where I said "history" with a wink went over some
people's heads.
On Wed, 6 Jun 2018, 4:26 pm Mark Tinka, wrote:
> I think it's so 2001 to lump Microsoft into being this evil company that
> does wrong by buying into the open source space.
>
> If you look around, they are now
I think it's so 2001 to lump Microsoft into being this evil company that
does wrong by buying into the open source space.
If you look around, they are now more platform-agnostic, run a very
large global network, and offer their services to a number of
organizations that are willing to pay for
I am personally not dogmatic about the services I use anymore. I use
GitHub, GitLab, BitBucket in my day-to-day work, and the amazing thing is
that 80% is the same, the 20% differences are catered for in the workflows
of the clients. The only reason to use GitLab is free private repositories
for
To be fair, the purchasing private company has a history of "acquire,
integrate, destroy" ;)
Also, gitlab (to where most people are moving) has an open source version
of its git software that you can use to self-host - which is something I
and others do.
P
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At that time people began...
Best reactions:
"This private company I've been using for free has been bought by another
private company I dislike.
I will start using yet another private company and I will pay NOTHING
again."
Correction: A private money losing but super popular company wasn’t bought
by another wickedly
