GitHub could be acquired by Microsoft

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07.06.2018 14:12, Vladimir Panteleev пишет:
> On Thursday, 7 June 2018 at 05:28:26 UTC, Nick Sabalausky (Abscissa) wrote:
>> I've always felt GitLab was better than GitHub (in large part because 
>> they're sensible enough to support self-hosting), so it's tempting to 
>> use this as a great reason to move to GitLab.
> 
> I've been following the discussions (mainly on HN) on the subject, and 
> there are a few arguments against GitLab (i.e. the gitlab.com SaaS) as 
> well.
> 
> - The company might be purchased by a bigger one in the same way that 
> happened to GitHub.
> - The conflict of interest between the free and paid tiers means that 
> some issues that are useful for open-source projects won't be available 
> to them, even though they are available at their competitors.
> - gitlab.com provides features unavailable in the open-source 
> (community) edition to all projects, which means that migrating away 
> from gitlab.com and to a self-hosted instance would be a compromise 
> involving losing features.
> 
>> In any case, I've always thought it was absolutely sick that that even 
>> though GitHub/BitBucket/GitLab/Launchpad/etc. all provide basically 
>> the same features on top of the standard ***distributed*** version 
>> control systems, they are all completely incapable of talking to each 
>> other or acting as interchangable viewers on a single set of common 
>> project data. So much for the "distributed" in "DVCS".
> 
> Many people think so too:
> 
> https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ee/issues/4517
> https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/4013
> 
> Unfortunately it looks like the current plan for federation in GitLab 
> will once again be only in the paid version.
> 

isn't it a niche for THE application that could be written in D?