[dba-Tech] Microsoft now owns Github

[Peter Brawley]

On 6/5/2018 0:09, Jim Lawrence wrote:
> Hi All:
>
> It is official, Microsoft now owns Github:
>
> https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/04/technology/microsoft-github-cloud-computing.html
> https://nyti.ms/2kPL1cU
>
> In the meantime, Gitlab has had their servers maxed out at over 50 to 100 thousand project migrations an hour, since the announcement. I guess this is what "panic" looks like. It is not that Microsoft cannot be trusted,

You're kidding, right?

> it is just that developers don't trust them. Even friends at Microsoft have been moving... ;-)
>
> I personally am not concerned but the last such similar developer site MS had, collapsed due to lack of interest. Maybe the new Github will be a profit making site and that will guarantee yet another postmortem. Of course, Microsoft could take a hands-off approach but only time will tell.
>
> Any comments from the developers, here?

Best hope might be that someone will do for GitHub what MariaDB did for 
MySQL---make a credible, trustable fork.

PB

>
> Jim
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