:: Re: [DNG] [OT] Re: (forw) [GoLugTec…
Página Principal
Delete this message
Reply to this message
Autor: KatolaZ
Data:  
Para: dng
Assunto: Re: [DNG] [OT] Re: (forw) [GoLugTech] Microsoft buys GitHub
On Mon, Jun 04, 2018 at 05:46:54PM +0100, Mark Rousell wrote:
> On 04/06/2018 17:01, KatolaZ wrote:
> > Microsoft knows that GitHub is a goldmine of ideas and cool projects,
> > and owning it means profiling the free software community with an
> > unprecedented accuracy.
>
> But if most of those projects are open source ones then Microsoft (or
> anyone else) would have had access to all that information anyway.
> Owning GitHub does not seem to me to get them anything substantially new
> as far open source projects are concerned.
>


You can't effectively crawl the whole GitHub using GutHub's API (have
you tried?). And you can't track all the changes and trends in real
time. Unless you own GitHub.

HND

KatolaZ

-- 
[ ~.,_  Enzo Nicosia aka KatolaZ - Devuan -- Freaknet Medialab  ]  
[     "+.  katolaz [at] freaknet.org --- katolaz [at] yahoo.it  ]
[       @)   http://kalos.mine.nu ---  Devuan GNU + Linux User  ]
[     @@)  http://maths.qmul.ac.uk/~vnicosia --  GPG: 0B5F062F  ] 
[ (@@@)  Twitter: @KatolaZ - skype: katolaz -- github: KatolaZ  ]