GitHub Buy Out?

Jason Self at 2018-06-02T16:19:01Z

I'm not sure if this is still part of the Embrace phase? Or, since GitHub already went through the Extend phase themselves by getting people to move their workflows from free software into a combination of free and proprietary, are we moving into the Extend phase of Microsoft's plan?

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>> Jason Self:

“I suppose one thing that Microsoft could do, if this happens, would be to make GitHub accounts full on Microsoft accounts with access the Windows Development Center. And then start saying "Hey look how easy it is to develop your apps for Windows" (especially with the GNU/Linux compatibility layer in Windows 10.)”

If I know them, they will then develop a Microsoft-Different version of git, forcing people who uses github to adopt it.

milo at 2018-06-02T16:50:20Z

There is a Python 3 port of bzr called brz (f/k/a "Breezy") underway that'll help keep Launchpad running quite nicely.

Stephen Michael Kellat at 2018-06-02T23:17:42Z

They clearly saw a giant much bigger than it should be, all very nicely centralized, and said... "how is it possible that we don't own this yet???" xD

JanKusanagi at 2018-06-03T00:45:03Z

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>> JanKusanagi:

“They clearly saw a giant much bigger than it should be, all very nicely centralized, and said... "how is it possible that we don't own this yet???" xD”

By the way , using the functionality of "mirroring", gogs is a wonderful, decentralized github.

milo at 2018-06-03T10:31:20Z