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I am very interested in what will happen with these accounts (t name a few) the next few weeks / months: https://github.com/torvalds/linux https://github.com/t
by EastSmith 8y ago
I am very interested in what will happen with these accounts (t name a few) the next few weeks / months:
https://github.com/torvalds/linux https://github.com/torvalds/linux
https://github.com/mozilla https://github.com/mozilla
https://github.com/google https://github.com/google
- jasonvorhe 8y agoDo you seriously expect anything to happen to these accounts? On what grounds?
- lioeters 8y agoI'm guessing: access to all private repos.
- voltagex_ 8y agoWhat do you think will happen? What advantage would any change bring for Microsoft? (/torvalds/linux is not the upstream, btw)
- EastSmith 8y agoI am expecting the owners of these sort of accounts to just move away. I am certainly not expecting MS to mess with the accounts in any way. Another issue: Lets say I am a small business competing with MS on some very small niche market. Lets say all my code is on a private github repository. Would I stay on GitHub for a moment after this news? I mean I know these are separate companies (Microsoft and GitHub), but I still will be moving away right now.
- voltagex_ 8y agoA bit like if you're a bookshop running your online site on AWS. The downside risk for Amazon messing with anything is greater than any benefit they could gain. I mean, Microsoft has a kernel module upstreamed. It's not 1990 anymore.