On Tue, 5 Jun 2018 at 12:06:25 +0100 Mark Rousell <mark.rous...@signal100.com> wrote:
> On 05/06/2018 07:19, Alessandro Selli wrote: >> On 04/06/2018 at 18:40, Mark Rousell wrote: >>> On 04/06/2018 17:02, salsa-...@tut.by wrote: >>>> Personally I see this as a part of "embrace open source" strategy to >>>> kill open source. >>>> >>>> # Serge >>>> >>> I can't see that it would be in Microsoft's interest to kill open source. >> Really? Are you kidding? > > The simple truth is that Microsoft is now making money out of open > source (and users of open source software). Thus killing or harming open > source no longer makes sense for Microsoft. Their revenue going forward > depends on playing nicely with open source. They only did it because they had to. They still are not a FOSS friendly company and they'd be ovejoyed to be able to kill or at least highjack FOSS to be able to go reign back all of their customers into their prorietary walled garden. Or, would they not be able to do so, at least steal customers away from prominent FOSS companies. > Time will tell. This was said hundreds of times before about M$, and time always said the same thing: M$ intentions have always been to promote their interest to the detriment of everybody else's. > I predict that they won't muck up GitHub. The fact is > that GitHub needed an investor or buyer Really? Did they need it? It doesn't seem to me they were looking for a buyer or an investor, it was M$ who decided to assimilate them. > and Microsoft has the cash to > prop it up. They could afford to support it even if it continues to make > a loss. GitHub was not operating at a loss: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GitHub#Finance As of August 2016, GitHub was making $140 million in Annual Recurring Revenue.[47] 47. Plassnig, Moritz. "GitHub is making $140M in ARR". Medium. Retrieved 2016-12-19. https://medium.com/@moritzplassnig/github-is-doing-much-better-than-bloomberg-thinks-here-is-why-a4580b249044 Alessandro _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
