Because I track what MS does same as I track ROS, and many other platforms. That’s what they prefer to access MSDN, so I maintain the account. I’ve had a project as large as ROS, and other email accounts, deleted out from under me over the years, so I may be more cynical than the situation warrants, but it isn’t paranoia.
Sent from Mail<https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=550986> for Windows 10 ________________________________ From: Pierre Schweitzer <pie...@reactos.org> Sent: Tuesday, June 5, 2018 1:46:55 PM To: ReactOS Development List; M. Ziggyesque; David Quintana (gigaherz) Subject: Re: [ros-dev] Microsoft acquires GitHub Let's no be paranoid and make plans out of nothing please... And if Microsoft are that evil, why are you using their mail services? Le 05/06/2018 à 19:43, M. Ziggyesque a écrit : > No, I don't see it as pointless to have a plan B. It's more a question of > when, not if, it's desirable, given past practices. > > Even with no immediate changes, github can no longer be considered > vendor-neutral. Down the road, as example, M$ may well try to require every > project adopt their code-signing policy or the project gets deleted, so they > get their kickbacks on all the certificate fees that would entail. ROS > doesn't require code-signing?? DELETE!! They did similar when they bought out > sysinternals, bloated all their utilities with certificates, so that's a > distinct possibility. > > While migrating the repo itself is easy, the issues list and other history is > less so, plus the hassle of getting links on external pages to redirect to a > new home; those would take some lead time so imo is better to have some plan > than not. > > ------ Original message------ > From: David Quintana (gigaherz) > Date: Tue, Jun 5, 2018 4:40 AM > To: ReactOS Development List; > Cc: > Subject:Re: [ros-dev] Microsoft acquires GitHub > > To elaborate further: > > 1. The deal won't be closed for many months (they expect december) > 2. Microsoft probably won't change github at first (xcept maybe make the > login integrate with a Microsoft Account) > 3. We don't know what they plan to do with the platform in the long term, > so worrying now is pointless. > 4. We don't know that it will EVER be hostile toward ReactOS, even if they > break the platform and make it unusable, so chances are we are good. > 5. If worst comes to worst, as Thomas said, we just say goodbye to GH and > move elsewhere. > > > On 5 June 2018 at 10:36, Javier Agustìn Fernàndez Arroyo > <elh...@gmail.com<mailto:elh...@gmail.com>> wrote: > great! :) > > On Tue, Jun 5, 2018 at 10:34 AM, Thomas Faber > <thomas.fa...@reactos.org<mailto:thomas.fa...@reactos.org>> wrote: > To elaborate, we're not dependent on GitHub in any significant way. It's > just convenient. But if it stops being so, it's easy to go elsewhere. > That's a key part of Git, being a "distributed" VCS. > > > On 2018-06-05 10:31, Oleksandr Shaposhnikov wrote: >> No it may not. >> >> 5 черв. 2018 р. 11:24 Javier Agustìn Fernàndez Arroyo >> <elh...@gmail.com<mailto:elh...@gmail.com>> пише: >> >> May this affect ReactOS? >> >> >> https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2018/06/04/microsoft-github-empowering-developers/<https://nam05.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fblogs.microsoft.com%2Fblog%2F2018%2F06%2F04%2Fmicrosoft-github-empowering-developers%2F&data=02%7C01%7C%7Ca6b7a92ca5c146e5bc5e08d5cac00cc9%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C636637848550395788&sdata=MphM9bR%2F0p14QXZQBKrHGfUK3cmOwVfNKDYXdqtBMVA%3D&reserved=0> > > > _______________________________________________ > Ros-dev mailing list > Ros-dev@reactos.org<mailto:Ros-dev@reactos.org> > http://www.reactos.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-dev<https://nam05.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.reactos.org%2Fmailman%2Flistinfo%2Fros-dev&data=02%7C01%7C%7Ca6b7a92ca5c146e5bc5e08d5cac00cc9%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C636637848550552040&sdata=V8%2B3DEP1VRUt2B34MdmNxVef9urlPZ8tYoamkdKQdts%3D&reserved=0> > > > _______________________________________________ > Ros-dev mailing list > Ros-dev@reactos.org<mailto:Ros-dev@reactos.org> > http://www.reactos.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-dev<https://nam05.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.reactos.org%2Fmailman%2Flistinfo%2Fros-dev&data=02%7C01%7C%7Ca6b7a92ca5c146e5bc5e08d5cac00cc9%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C636637848550552040&sdata=V8%2B3DEP1VRUt2B34MdmNxVef9urlPZ8tYoamkdKQdts%3D&reserved=0> > > > > _______________________________________________ > Ros-dev mailing list > Ros-dev@reactos.org > http://www.reactos.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-dev > -- Pierre Schweitzer <pierre at reactos.org> System & Network Administrator Senior Kernel Developer ReactOS Deutschland e.V.
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