Have to say I'm a little perplexed at all the negativity surrounding the news on this.
I don't see the Microsoft under the Satya Nadella as comparable to previous eras of the company. There's no way they'd buy GitHub and then strip it down, or whatever some people are saying(there's some crazy ideas out there), look at how their using it now. They are considered to be one of the largest open source contributors on GitHub(3839 people in the MS organisation on GitHub, and 1839 repos), why purchase this and then ruin it? their staff are using it more than anyone right now Yes, there will obviously be some MS tie-ins, be it Azure or Visual Studio (Code), etc... But there could also be other changes, that maybe GitHub could make previously, etc.. and not everyone will agree with all the upcoming changes, specifically if there's an MS bias in them, but in fairness, no change will ever suit everyone. Let's see what they do first before judging them. And like has already been said, it's fairly easy to change a remote host on git... John On 5 June 2018 at 23:40, John Muczynski <johnst...@gmail.com> wrote: > Dear Martin, > > I would like to respectfully disagree with two of your statements. > > microsoft does not play by the rules. > > Also, they have never been stopped due to their previous anti competitive > behavior. It is unlikely they would lose any legal case in any of the legal > systems when they shut down GitHub. > > That's my take on it. I am feeling rather cynical. > > Kind regards, > Johnny > > > On Tue, Jun 5, 2018, 9:18 AM Martin Weißhaupt < > mweisshaupt1...@googlemail.com> wrote: > > > GitHub was already a proprietary platform. Microsoft is not stupid, they > > want to get a part of the open source cake and closing GitHub or making > > open source projects suffer would get them into trouble really fast. I'm > > not a lawyer but I think that would qualify as anti competitive behaviour > > which would get the EU or other institutions to intervent. > > > > If they are playing by the rules there is nothing to worry about but > > everyone should be observant about what Microsoft does with GitHub in the > > future. > > > > Regards, > > Martin > > > > 2018-06-05 14:34 GMT+02:00 Kirk Pepperdine <k...@kodewerk.com>: > > > > > I say good for GitHub.. I don’t think MS will be a problem… At least > not > > > right away. And if they are, it’s pretty easy to move to a new git > home. > > > > > > — Kirk > > > > > > > On Jun 5, 2018, at 1:58 PM, Peter Cheung <mcheun...@hotmail.com> > > wrote: > > > > > > > > Codeplex, nokia, robotVM, all dead > > > > > > > > ________________________________ > > > > From: Emilian Bold <emilian.b...@protonmail.ch> > > > > Sent: Tuesday, June 5, 2018 4:15 PM > > > > To: dev@netbeans.incubator.apache.org > > > > Subject: Microsoft buys GitHub > > > > > > > > Hello, > > > > > > > > I'm a bit worried about Microsoft steering the future of open-source > > > projects' online collaboration and tooling with their GitHub purchase: > > > https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2018/06/04/microsoft- > > > github-empowering-developers/ > > > > > > > > I wonder if there's anything we need to rethink in terms of our > > > project's dependence on GitHub PRs, etc. > > > > > > > > --emi > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------ > --------- > > > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscribe@netbeans. > incubator.apache.org > > > > For additional commands, e-mail: > > dev-h...@netbeans.incubator.apache.org > > > > > > > > For further information about the NetBeans mailing lists, visit: > > > > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/NETBEANS/Mailing+lists > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@netbeans.incubator.apache.org > > > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-help@netbeans.incubator. > apache.org > > > > > > For further information about the NetBeans mailing lists, visit: > > > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/NETBEANS/Mailing+lists > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >
