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  • #31
    after reading some comments here, I think most don't see that MS "fight against Linux/OpenSource" is over already. They didn't buy github to destroy/harm Linux or Open Source in any way. MS knows they lost to Linux/OpenSource basically everywhere except the desktop market (ignoring Azure here. They are still important there for stupid reasons: Name and special business needs like certifications).

    They know they've lost and now they have to see how to remain a company with a valid business approach.

    Sure they can still screw up github, but I doubt they would do so intentionally.

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    • #32
      Originally posted by Weasel View Post
      At least it's not Apple.

      I always find it funny that a leader in a space is such a sellout (let's face it, github is currently where most people share their open source code). I mean... why? Money talks but... Microsoft ended up where it is by consistently being a leader (e.g. on the desktop), not by being a sellout to some other company for some quick bucks.

      The paranoia is a bit overboard though, I mean guys, you realize github was proprietary right? I mean not open source.
      Better uninstall CUPS because Apple has done so much damage to it. Oh wait! The exact opposite has happened, just like with creating Clang, LLDB, etc.

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      • #33
        Originally posted by andyprough View Post
        Amazing how much money Linus's little hobby projects are worth in today's dollars. I sure hope he gets a bit of stock out of this.
        You realize Git is maintained by Google? Github is the website, Atom, Github desktop, the pull request / release / issue / project management ui and workflow, but Linus' work is long- ago handed over to someone who is a Google employee. I don't see and way how Linus could get stock out of a website he never worked on.

        Granted, git being awesome is why Github was able to be awesome, but git is used in Gogs, Gitlab, VSTS, Bitbucket etc as well.

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        • #34
          Goodbye and RIP Github!
          So shitty of them not to annouce the users before being bought so we could've closed the accounts before handing all the data to Microsoft.

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          • #35
            Originally posted by Weasel View Post
            At least it's not Apple.
            I had to laugh at that one. I'm also glad it isn't RedHat or Oracle.

            I like where Microsoft is going these days. They can turn into an open source company for all I care. I doubt they'll be worse than RedHat who is looking more like Oracle or the old Microsoft these days. *lol*

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            • #36
              Well, Github was fun all this years but it seems is time to fine greener pastures, I won't trust Microsoft even with someone else's 10 feet pole

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              • #37
                Originally posted by jrch2k8 View Post
                Well, Github was fun all this years but it seems is time to fine greener pastures, I won't trust Microsoft even with someone else's 10 feet pole
                Sorry, but then you don't seem to have a clue what you're doing on GitHub anyway. Whatever license you've given your code will continue to be its license and nobody can take this away from you. If you there have no trust then you shouldn't make your code open source in the first place.

                Some people act like Microsoft is going to replace all license files with a Microsoft license.

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                • #38
                  It's times like these I wish we had a distributed alternative. I know Git itself is distributed, but all of the rest of the nice features GitHub adds on top could be distributed also. Basically, if you move from GitHub to GitLab, to anywhere else, for now they are all centrally controlled servers. This requires money for electricity, computer parts, and bandwidth. But for many open source projects, the developers do not wish to pay since they're giving their code away for free.

                  But, I suspect most people here have all of those resources, and they are underutilized. So instead of a central main Git repo, and defect tracking and web page, if all of those were distributed with a relatively plug-n-play installation of the server, and a client interface that is largely the same, those hosting costs almost disappear. I know I would volunteer my computing resources if there was a viable option.

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                  • #39
                    Originally posted by sdack View Post
                    Sorry, but then you don't seem to have a clue what you're doing on GitHub anyway. Whatever license you've given your code will continue to be its license and nobody can take this away from you. If you there have no trust then you shouldn't make your code open source in the first place.

                    Some people act like Microsoft is going to replace all license files with a Microsoft license.
                    Well, I won't expect it but I can't discard it either since it won't be the first time Microsoft tries to do some very underhanded horrible thing and I won't discard trying to try to force people into Azure either for certain features.

                    My point is why risk it? I just deleted my whole GitHub account and migrated my code to gitlab in less than 5m(yes I'm aware for some big projects is not that easy obviously) hence I removed any need to "trust" Microsoft from the equation with any of the risks involved into doing so.

                    May sound a bit extreme but I value my privacy and as long as there is an good option out there that in theory respects that(you can't never be sure of course) I will never again trust Microsoft with anything as long as it is humanly avoidable.

                    Plus I'm not asking anyone else to do so, if you wanna risk it feel 100% free to do so. In my personal case Im not willing to even give Microsoft the benefit of the doubt

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                    • #40
                      Originally posted by Palu Macil View Post
                      You realize Git is maintained by Google? Github is the website, Atom, Github desktop, the pull request / release / issue / project management ui and workflow, but Linus' work is long- ago handed over to someone who is a Google employee. I don't see and way how Linus could get stock out of a website he never worked on.

                      Granted, git being awesome is why Github was able to be awesome, but git is used in Gogs, Gitlab, VSTS, Bitbucket etc as well.
                      Would any of those billions of dollars worth of businesses exist without Linus getting irritated with BitKeeper in 2005 and writing his own version control system?

                      Would Google exist if Linus hadn't gotten frustrated with MINIX licensing in 1991 and decided to write his own kernel?

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