On Mon, Jun 18, 2018 at 10:27 PM, Frederik Ramm <frede...@remote.org> wrote:
Others have qualms about signing up to an American social network platform > just > to participate in OSM discussions (remember - if the product is free, you > are the product). >From what I have read, others in the IT community have qualms about keeping their repos on github now it's been bought by Microsoft. See, for example, https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/06/04/microsoft_buys_github/ and the associated comments (almost all negative, some so vituperative they would make Linus Torvalds blush). It remains to be seen how many of those are willing to walk the walk as well as talk the talk. However, I suspect a significant number have at least duplicated their repos elsewhere. Some claimed they were going to copy their repos elsewhere and poison the copies on github to leave a nice surprise should Microsoft try to harvest their work. I'm not saying Microsoft will screw up github (although history shows that's what usually happens to their acquisitions). I'm not saying Microsoft will steal people's work (they could do that without buying github), although I remember Stacker's Doublespace product and what happened to it. I'm not saying Microsoft will embrace, extend and extinguish github, but they have a history of doing that. I'm just pointing out that people have other reasons for avoiding github these days, and its alternatives don't have such sophisticated comments/discussion capability, so maybe that's another reason to move as much discussion as possible to the mailing list. -- Paul
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