[Ground-station] Microsoft purchases GitHub

[Steve Conklin]

Consensus among the experts I know (and they're probably all wrong but . .
. ) is that there are probably two main reasons for this.

1. Microsoft is doing this as part of their effort to dominate the
developer hiring pipeline - By pairing github with the acquisition of
linkedin, they'll be able to build something bigger.

2. There will probably eventually be a "deploy to azure" automation
pipeline integrated into github, with automated build, test, and packaging
for Windows and Linux. This would open up cross-platform app development,
but (most importantly), exclude Apple products. If you factor in app store
integration, you get something pretty close to what Canonical tried to do
for Linux with Launchpad.

(2) Might actually benefit us, if it happens.


On Mon, Jun 4, 2018 at 11:35 AM, Stephen Hicks, N5AC via Ground-Station <
ground-station at lists.openresearch.institute> wrote:

> 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
>>>
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