> On 5 Jun 2018, at 10:02, Jimmy Johnson <field.engin...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On 06/03/2018 06:01 PM, 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. >> Did I mention GitLab? ;-> >> ----- Forwarded message from David Krauser via Tech <t...@golug.org> ----- >> Date: Sun, 03 Jun 2018 18:51:18 -0400 >> From: David Krauser via Tech <t...@golug.org> >> To: tech <t...@golug.org> >> Subject: [GoLugTech] Microsoft buys GitHub >> Reply-To: David Krauser <da...@krauser.org>, t...@golug.org >> https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-06-03/microsoft-is-said-to-have-agreed-to-acquire-coding-site-github >> This makes me really uncomfortable. >> - dk > > > https://news.microsoft.com/2018/06/04/microsoft-to-acquire-github-for-7-5-billion/ > > I hope it's not to late for friendly open-source to get out of gethub. > -- > Jimmy Johnson
How does this affect tools like NPM/Yarn, or even golang, that have direct specific integration with GitHub to download or import source code packages? —Tom _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng