Re:Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub
by chris_wot on Monday June 04, 2018 @02:57AM
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Which makes see the wisdom of Gnome choosing Gitlab.
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Re:Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub
by laumars on Monday June 04, 2018 @03:50AM
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Gnome is open source though so Microsoft wouldn't need to buy the hosting provider to read it's source.
To be honest, even with regards to private repos, I can't see Microsoft reading the source code because that would be a massive law case waiting to happen. What I'm more concerned about is Microsoft trying to integrate more of their own suite into Github. I'm also concerned about the future of Atom; which I specifically chose over VSC because it wasn't managed by Microsoft.
Re:Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub
by gsich on Monday June 04, 2018 @07:37AM
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If you have issues with that, then only self-hosting can save you.
Re:Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub
by laumars on Monday June 04, 2018 @08:43AM
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I already self-host personal projects but that is only part of the story since I cannot (and should not) dictate what solutions other people use. A pretty significant proportion of open source projects I have contributed to have been Github hosted so even if I don't use it for personal projects I still will need to use it if I want to continue to contribute to those other projects.