Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub

Re:Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub by johannes1234321 on Sunday June 03, 2018 @06:37PM (#17222770)

Until MSFT/GitHub does what Sourceforge.net did - taking over project sites from projects which moved away and adding malware (adware/spyware) into those ;)

(I believe with all critique on Microsoft they aren't as bad, but want to exemplarize the risk)

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Re:Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub by askvictor on Sunday June 03, 2018 @09:18PM (#17223711)

It might just be cleaner to close the github repo and when other projects find a 404 where it used to be, they'll have to use super detective skills (i.e. Google it) to find the project's new home. And if they can't find it that way, then nothing of value was lost. (Yes, yes, I know it's more nuanced than that, but if you wanted permanence, you'd be hosting on your own domain, right?)

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Re:Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub by suby on Sunday June 03, 2018 @09:13PM (#17223677)

This would be a great way for them to accelerate migration away from Github.

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