[LAU] Some disturbing news

[David Kastrup]

Robin Gareus <robin at gareus.org> writes:

> On 06/02/2018 10:00 AM, Will Godfrey wrote:
>> 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 :(
>> 
>
> And this matters how?
>
> git is completely decentralized. Most git repos do already exist,
> mirrored, in various places simultaneously. If you only push your
> project to github.com, and mirror it nowhere else, you're doing it
> wrong.

You don't know GitHub, right?  You can clone a Git repository from
GitHub, but the normal workflow is to create merge requests and accept
them, either of which require a GitHub account.  And while you can
readily clone a Github repository and work without GitHub on it, you
lose access to the discussions around merge requests, the issue trackers
and everything else regarding the project management.

It sounds like being based off Git makes you avoid lock-in, but that
only concerns the repository and there is a whole lot more.

-- 
David Kastrup