GitHub could be acquired by Microsoft

[SpaceInvader]

On Saturday, 9 June 2018 at 02:09:20 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 6/8/2018 5:54 PM, Kapps wrote:
>> Personally I think the fear of Microsoft ruining GitHub is 
>> completely unfounded.
>
> My concern has nothing to do with Microsoft. It's about not 
> totally relying on any third party not under our control.

Mmm..but the whole point of 'cloud' (from a business model 
perspective) is to make us all rely on 3rd parties not under our 
control.

MS wants github in order to create strategic dependencies - i.e. 
have 'them' host 'our' stuff. That creates the dependency. Now 
they have us.

Even if the D foundation set up its own git repo, it would still 
need to host it somewhere.

So no matter what you do, in the cloud, you're always dependent 
on someone. There just no getting around it.

So, in the cloud, it all comes back to risk management.

Ideally, repo's could be replicated across different hosting 
providers/platforms, and in the event of one going belly up, we'd 
all automatically switch over....

..but what are the chances that rival companies will co-operate, 
so that can be achieved?