[svlug] (forw) [GoLugTech] Microsoft buys GitHub

[Steve Litt]

You know, Rick, you and I have had our opinion differences through the
years, but we always seem to agree that outsourcing part of your
organization to somebody who inserts themselves as a "man in the
middle" is a bad idea.

I'm going to find out more about GitLab.

SteveT

On Sun, 3 Jun 2018 18:00:48 -0700
Rick Moen <rick at linuxmafia.com> wrote:

> For years, I've been politely telling representatives 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 <tech at golug.org>
> -----
> 
> Date: Sun, 03 Jun 2018 18:51:18 -0400
> From: David Krauser via Tech <tech at golug.org>
> To: tech <tech at golug.org>
> Subject: [GoLugTech] Microsoft buys GitHub
> Reply-To: David Krauser <david at krauser.org>, tech at 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