GitHub could be acquired by Microsoft

[Guillaume Piolat]

On Monday, 4 June 2018 at 15:08:01 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
> In many respects, they're better behaved than they used to be. 
> They're biggest problems seem to have to do with what they're 
> doing with Windows (e.g. tracking what you're doing and not 
> letting you turn it off). It's certainly not desriable that 
> they bought github, but it probably won't have any obvious 
> effects for a while. The biggest concerns probably have to do 
> with collecting data on users, and github was doutblessly doing 
> that already.
>
> - Jonathan M Davis

At least in the EU we had a big GDPR Windows Update that let you 
disable every tracking. All in all an amazing law (for the user) 
that would make sense for regulators to import.