[Ground-station] Microsoft purchases GitHub

[Stephen Hicks, N5AC]

It’s not like Microsoft could prevent you from gaining access to your
source since everyone has a complete copy.  The scarier thing is having to
move quickly because of a price increase or a leak of code (which open
source repos don’t care about anyway).

I think GitHub has mismanaged their pricing and feature set and Microsoft
will likely fix this.

Steve

On Mon, Jun 4, 2018 at 09:00 Michelle Thompson via Ground-Station
<ground-station at lists.openresearch.institute> wrote:

> I like how Libre Space and others have their work in multiple places. We'll
> continue to be at GitHub unless and until there's compelling reasons to
> leave.
>
> I think having our stuff at our GtiLab at
> https://git.openresearch.institute/ is a great idea. I think we already
> have a mirror there?  Let's go ahead and do this if not.
>
> Having the documentation additionally hosted at a GitLab (or "the" GitLab)
> gives us useful redundancy. The more places we can be found the better. We
> can set this up. What do I need to do next?
>
> Back to creating content! :+)
>
> -Michelle W5NYV
>
>
>
> On Sun, Jun 3, 2018 at 8:20 PM, Bruce Perens via Ground-Station <
> ground-station at lists.openresearch.institute> wrote:
>
>> Microsoft has purchased GitHub. Microsoft is not the evil empire it once
>> was, and might even see fit to sponsor some of my efforts to fight against
>> royalty-bearing patents in standards. Which is going to feel very strange
>> if it really happens. But GitHub is still too many resources of the Open
>> Source community residing in one place. This was never a good idea.
>>
>> Re-hosting our stuff to our self-hosted GitLab at
>> https://git.openresearch.institute/
>> might be a good idea. We can continue to mirror it from GitHub.
>>
>> Developers run their own projects, so this is mostly up to Michelle for
>> the digital communications work. Any Open Source project that has something
>> to do with satellites or ham radio and is Open Source is welcome to use our
>> GitLab. Things hosted there will end up on our physical distributions
>> (blu-ray discs, etc.) when we make and archive them.
>>
>>     Thanks
>>
>>     Bruce
>>
>> --
>> Bruce Perens K6BP - CEO, Legal Engineering
>> Standards committee chair, license review committee member, co-founder,
>> Open Source Initiative
>> President, Open Research Institute; Board Member, Fashion Freedom
>> Initiative.
>>
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