Microsoft's acquisition of GitHub could be announced as soon as Monday

K.C. Lee wrote 06/04/2018 at 00:23 • 3 points

http://www.businessinsider.com/microsoft-github-acquisition-could-be-announced-monday-2018-6

http://www.businessinsider.com/2-billion-startup-github-could-be-for-sale-microsoft-2018-5

News like is unthought of even a few years back.

Discussions

zakqwy wrote 06/07/2018 at 20:31

All my stuff is on GitHub and I'm not changing that until I have a compelling reason to do so. Microsoft may not have a great history with OSS but a lot has changed over the last few years. Windows Subsystem for Linux, Visual Studio Code, etc. IDGAF until the TOS actually changes in a concerning way.

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yeti wrote 06/04/2018 at 10:17

Locked-In syndrome! :-/

I need to be able to report issues for some projects which sure will not leave GitHub... :-(

My private stuff is at GitLab but I'm planning to move that to $LOCALNET because I expect GitLab not to be the answer forever.

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Ricky Zhang wrote 06/04/2018 at 08:57

My stomach feels sick, when I read the title. I may consider moving all my git repo to gogs at home.

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SHAOS wrote 06/04/2018 at 01:01

I just moved my old repo NedoPC SDK from SourceForge to GitHub :(

Time to move again?...

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SHAOS wrote 06/06/2018 at 12:16

Moved again: https://gitlab.com/nedopc/sdk :)

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Ted Yapo wrote 06/04/2018 at 00:44

I've been using GitLab more and more lately. They seem to offer everything GitHub does, plus free private repos.

Is Microsoft becoming a cancer on open source?

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K.C. Lee wrote 06/04/2018 at 09:39

Or they just want your data when you use "github login" as credentials elsewhere and others that access your contents. Some of us don't use F-book or Twitty bird or goo elsewhere. Or they just like to mess around with open source people's head. :P

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