Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] Confirmed! Microsoft Has Bought GitHub for $7.5 Billion | It's FOSS

2018-06-07 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Charlie, if you want to share something about this topic, it became a thread at FreeBSD questions, see https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2018-June/281932.html and follow-ups. Subscribe at https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions and it already is a topic

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] Confirmed! Microsoft Has Bought GitHub for $7.5 Billion | It's FOSS

2018-06-07 Thread Len Ovens
On Thu, 7 Jun 2018, Charlie wrote: I'm against this deal. I don't like a corporate giant jumping into our open source community and exerting its influence with money. We of the free and open source software community need to be alarmed by this and if any of you have code on github, I'd suggest

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] Confirmed! Microsoft Has Bought GitHub for $7.5 Billion | It's FOSS

2018-06-07 Thread charlie
Hey erich. Understood. I'll refrain from doing it. My apologies. Charlie On 06/07/2018 07:29 AM, Erich Eickmeyer wrote: Charlie, This mailing list is not the forum for such discussions as it is considered off-topic. While it is related to development in general, it is not specific enough to

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] Confirmed! Microsoft Has Bought GitHub for $7.5 Billion | It's FOSS

2018-06-07 Thread Erich Eickmeyer
Charlie, This mailing list is not the forum for such discussions as it is considered off-topic. While it is related to development in general, it is not specific enough to Ubuntu Studio. Our code is hosted on Launchpad. As for other projects, very little if any code at all is simply mirrored from

[ubuntu-studio-devel] Confirmed! Microsoft Has Bought GitHub for $7.5 Billion | It's FOSS

2018-06-07 Thread Charlie
I'm against this deal. I don't like a corporate giant jumping into our open source community and exerting its influence with money. We of the free and open source software community need to be alarmed by this and if any of you have code on github, I'd suggest you put it somewhere else. Linux is