[Xastir] Thoughts on rumors of Github being "assimilated" by the evil empire of Redmond Washington...

[David Ranch]

I personally think that's a pretty extreme reaction.  I'm no Microsoft 
fan either but I wouldn't bail on such as fantastic site like Github 
until/if Microsoft ruins them.  I've used both GitLab and BitBucket and 
though both are recent, neither are as nice as Github and/or are rather 
expensive.  SourceForge has done a lot to catch up including Git 
services, etc. so I think they should be reconsidered though they still 
seem to have poorer reliability issues compared to the competition.

To your last point, do you mean software that's DEVELOPED using/hosted 
at Github or do you just mean software that's based on the code that 
Github has developed?  If the former, good luck with that.  A major 
portion of all modern OSS projects are hosted there.

--David
KI6ZHD


>    * 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