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Well the poll was closed when Microsoft “admitted” it is ordering $7.5B worth of GitHub. Microsoft’s blog post seems more reassuring than GitHub on preserving the open platform. What do you think. Yay for GitHub or BSOD?
@heckflosse From the OP:
That’s what I took as the main point of the thread: is MS buying GitHub good for FOSS projects who are using GitHub. Money amounts in title (and my post above) were just contextual information. 
Can we have an option to be cautiously ambivalent for now while we wait and see what, if any, changes MS implements? I’m not optimistic, but I’m toi deeply embedded in GitHub to go running for the hills without any real data about what changes are in store…
I don’t trust Microsoft, I trust the GPL2 under which I’ve licensed my code. They could shut it down tomorrow, and I could just move to GitLab. Or, host it myself.
I’m going to wait and see what they do. They’re not the same company they were under Ballmer, so it will be interesting.
I think it’ll just become an annoying Microsoft tie in. Use the whole MS stack or be annoyed at many rough edges.
In French “supporter” also means “to bear with” 
Counter question from my side:
I mean many people wished github would have stayed independent … for this they would have needed more revenue. So …
Would you switch to a paid subscription for github to help, if they made it more public that they need this to stay independent?
That would be an instigator for me to self-host my repositories. I’m not principled, I’m just cheap… 
You forget one key feature of services like github/gitlab … almost everyone will have an account and reduce the hurdle to contribute to your project. Be it with bug reports or pull requests.
Good point, but my perspective with rawproc to date hasn’t included a community component except as a basis for discussing how imaging things work, and this forum serves that purpose quite well. I may eventually change my mind, but right now I’m not seeing much appetite for a raw processor with sharp, dangerous edges…
Self-hosting has the appeal of discovery, for me. I did web development in a simpler era, and I relish opportunities to learn the current things, e.g., REST, webgl, etc…
Ars Technica has an interesting point of view:
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/06/everyone-complaining-about-microsoft-buying-github-needs-to-offer-a-better-solution/
Also, someone remarked that GitLab is hosted on Azure. If that is true, there is just no escaping Microsoft’s bear hug 
I bet M$ bought GitHub to improve their Office 365. Google Docs allowed for collaborative editing of docs for years now but M$ Office still sucks in that area.
As if SourceForge has such a good track records…
missing the blue screen
While not as bad as, say, Facebook acquiring Github, you know Microsoft will eventually shaft users if the shareholders demand it.
Better MS than Adobe, Oracle or Apple…
… or Google.
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