[LAU] Some disturbing news

[Will Godfrey]

On Sun, 03 Jun 2018 09:29:05 +0200
David Kastrup <dak at gnu.org> wrote:

>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.
>

I'm also mindful of Microsoft's well known 4 Es. Yes, watching recent events
I've come to the concusion they've added a new insidious one. It's now:

Embrace
*Encapsulate*
Extend
Extinguish

-- 
Will J Godfrey
http://www.musically.me.uk
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