GitHub could be acquired by Microsoft

[Chris]

On Monday, 4 June 2018 at 19:06:52 UTC, Maksim Fomin wrote:

>
> My second reaction after reading news (after shock) was to 
> visit D forum.

Same here! I was off for a few days and found out today on GitHub 
[1], and then I remembered the thread header talking about 
GitLab. I'm skeptical to say the least. I still remember how 
difficult it was to use Skype after it had been bought by MS. I 
dunno what's behind it. Polishing up their image, trying to get 
the copyright for all the code on GitHub, killing off OSS, or all 
of the above ;)

MS have certainly missed a lot of stuff over the last couple of 
years, stuff that came out of or was based on the OSS community. 
Search engines, the success of Java, Android and the mobile phone 
market in general, social media etc. People will create and move 
to new platforms, simply because they don't like the thought of 
MS hosting their code (same goes for Google or Oracle). They will 
move to platforms made by their fellow programmers. Now, this 
will take some time and GitHub will do business as usual for at 
least a year. But the rot will set in sooner or later, I think.

[1] e.g. https://blog.github.com/2018-06-04-github-microsoft/