On 2018-06-04 11:56, KatolaZ wrote:
> 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
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That plus access to all personal information. A veritable goldmine! I
don't see anything good coming out of this development.

golinux