On Sun, Jun 03, 2018 at 06:01:58PM -0700, Rick Moen wrote: > For years, I've been politely telling representatives & users of open source > projects (Void Linux, many others) 'Hey, you might want to reconsider > outsourcing your entire source code repos to GitHub, and consider > instead deploying instead one of many actually open source, self-hosted > workalikes such as GitLab.' > > I'm betting they'll see nothing wrong with outsourcing to a > proprietary-software firm run by people they don't know and have no > reason to trust, based on this news. I'm glad it works for them. >
IMHO the main problem is not just outsourcing to a proprietary software firm (which I think is already bad enough), rather outsourcing to a proprietary software firm which has made a fortune out of stealing software developed by others (the most notable examples are MS-BASIC and MS-DOS, which made MicroSoft out of NothingSoft), strangling competitors with endless lawsuits (does anybody here remember Digital Research?) or acquiring them to let them rotten to death (Nokia and Skype are probably the most notable recent examples), etc. GitHub was not a potential competitor to any software company hosting their repos on github.com. MicroSoft definitely is. The most probable outcome is that a new alternative will possibly emerge. And no, gitlab is not the one, IMHO. My2Cents KatolaZ -- [ ~.,_ Enzo Nicosia aka KatolaZ - Devuan -- Freaknet Medialab ] [ "+. katolaz [at] freaknet.org --- katolaz [at] yahoo.it ] [ @) http://kalos.mine.nu --- Devuan GNU + Linux User ] [ @@) http://maths.qmul.ac.uk/~vnicosia -- GPG: 0B5F062F ] [ (@@@) Twitter: @KatolaZ - skype: katolaz -- github: KatolaZ ]
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