> On 5 Jun 2018, at 10:02, Jimmy Johnson <field.engineer@???> wrote:
>
>> On 06/03/2018 06:01 PM, Rick Moen wrote:
>> For years, I've been politely telling representatives & users of open source
>> projects (Void Linux, many others) 'Hey, you might want to reconsider
>> outsourcing your entire source code repos to GitHub, and consider
>> instead deploying instead one of many actually open source, self-hosted
>> workalikes such as GitLab.'
>> I'm betting they'll see nothing wrong with outsourcing to a
>> proprietary-software firm run by people they don't know and have no
>> reason to trust, based on this news. I'm glad it works for them.
>> Did I mention GitLab? ;->
>> ----- Forwarded message from David Krauser via Tech <tech@???> -----
>> Date: Sun, 03 Jun 2018 18:51:18 -0400
>> From: David Krauser via Tech <tech@???>
>> To: tech <tech@???>
>> Subject: [GoLugTech] Microsoft buys GitHub
>> Reply-To: David Krauser <david@???>, tech@???
>> https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-06-03/microsoft-is-said-to-have-agreed-to-acquire-coding-site-github
>> This makes me really uncomfortable.
>> - dk
>
>
> https://news.microsoft.com/2018/06/04/microsoft-to-acquire-github-for-7-5-billion/
> I hope it's not to late for friendly open-source to get out of gethub.
> --
> Jimmy Johnson

How does this affect tools like NPM/Yarn, or even golang, that have direct specific integration with GitHub to download or import source code packages?

—Tom