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

[David Ranch]

It all comes down to the license of the various project's code.  If it's 
GPL, they can't "own" it.

Anyway.. it's done.  Sounds like they bought them:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-06-03/microsoft-is-said-to-have-agreed-to-acquire-coding-site-github

--David
KI6ZHD



On 06/03/2018 09:48 PM, Gary Hodder wrote:
> 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
>> EC/RO Prince William County ARES®/RACES
>> +1.703.628.3868
>> http://www.pwcares.org/
>> IM/Skype/Twitter: kg4giy
>>
>>> 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.
>
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