It all comes down to the license of the various project's code. If it's
GPL, they can't "own" it.
Anyway.. it's done. Sounds like they bought them:
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-06-03/microsoft-is-said-to-have-agreed-to-acquire-coding-site-github
--David
KI6ZHD
On 06/03/2018 09:48 PM, Gary Hodder wrote:
On Sun, 2018-06-03 at 22:31 -0400, David Lane wrote:
https://www.slashgear.com/microsoft-buying-github-is-reportedly-a-don
e-deal-03532736/
The end is near.
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On Jun 3, 2018, at 9:20 PM, MJ Inabnit <ke6...@arrl.net> wrote:
On 06/03/2018 05:16 PM, David A Aitcheson wrote:
IMO,
* ALL open source and ALL sane software development is over
* once confirmed I well be closing/deleting my Github account,
as I
did with Skype and Linked-In
* sadly that also is going to lead to my no longer using
software
based on Github
73
de KB3EFS Dave
wow, that is spooky. I just pulled up google news and there are
several
stories regard it :(
73
j
Does that mean after assimulation that all software on there will have
ms backdoors??
Or will they say all software on here is now owned by us?
There are other alternatives to github.
Gary.
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