On Sun, Jun 3, 2018 at 11:24 AM, David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> wrote:

Well, every year has been "next year will be the year of Linux on the

desktop" for 20 years at least, but it's still Microsoft who rules in
spite of EULAs and privacy agreements that have moved from insolent to
raving madness.

There's never going to be a year of Linux on the desktop.

At any rate, they have strongholds and not so strong holds.

The point remains: MS has been almost totally unsuccessful in any of its attempts to kill off open source en masse or per project.

Being owned by Microsoft will have technical consequences, but it will
also have legal consequences. The usage conditions will become more and
more absurd and people will grit their teeth and continue while
Microsoft sells all their private data to whoever wants to pay for it.

Whether it is google or github, it remains the case that if you are receiving a service for free, you should understand that you are probably not the customer, but rather the product.

There are alternatives to GH, and I believe there will always be alternatives to GH. Just as many of us jumped ship when sourceforge jumped the shark, people will migrate away from GH towards the new alternatives that show up if and when MS leads it off the cliff.