On 06/04/2018 06:53 PM, wirelessduck@??? wrote:
>
>> 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


I don't know, do you know?

Thanks you,
--
Jimmy Johnson

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