[LAU] Some disturbing news

[Peter P.]

* David Kastrup <dak at gnu.org> [2018-06-02 10:49]:
> 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.

I am surprised people saw something different in github than it being a buisness.
If you want independence set up your own gitlab servers. Linuxaudio.org
would be a cool spot for it.