[LAU] Some disturbing news

[David Kastrup]

Will Godfrey <willgodfrey at musically.me.uk> writes:

> I've just read on The Register that there are discussions between
> GitHub and Microsoft, with a possible buy-out by Microsoft. I really
> can't think of a worse possibility :(

I can.  A buyout by Oracle.  Though Oracle tends to kill projects fast
enough not to take everyone's enthusiasm with them and so replacements
pop up.  Microsoft tends to just sap all joy out and eventually people
don't know why they ever cared and are too tired to create something
new.

But basically that's what startups and venture capital are for: build a
business until it's large and robust convincing enough that one of the
established big players will pay big money in order to never hear of it
again.

-- 
David Kastrup