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

[Gary Hodder]

On Sun, 2018-06-03 at 22:31 -0400, David Lane wrote:
> https://www.slashgear.com/microsoft-buying-github-is-reportedly-a-don
> e-deal-03532736/
> 
> The end is near.
> 
> ---
> David A. Lane, KG4GIY
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> 
> > On Jun 3, 2018, at 9:20 PM, MJ Inabnit <ke6sls at arrl.net> wrote:
> > 
> > > On 06/03/2018 05:16 PM, David A Aitcheson wrote:
> > > IMO,
> > > 
> > >  * 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
> > 
> > 
> > wow, that is spooky.  I just pulled up google news and there are
> > several
> > stories regard it :(
> > 
> > 73
> > j
> > 

Does that mean after assimulation that all software on there will have
ms backdoors??
Or will they say all software on here is now owned by us?

There are other alternatives to github.

Gary.