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Honest question: Why should i be freaked out? I don't think MS will go full Sourceforge, you never go full Sourceforge... But seriously - shouldn't people, i

• acconrad 8y ago
  You shouldn't. I did a very deep dive into the terms of service for GitHub, GitLab, and Atlassian's Bitbucket, and didn't find a real sensible alternative. All 3 of them really operate in the same manner in terms of ownership and treatment of OSS. Also, Microsoft bought LinkedIn, another social network (almost 2 years ago to the day), and really hasn't done much with it. In fact, when LinkedIn updated their terms of service under Microsoft, they stated that the would keep a separate ToS that wasn't enforced by Microsoft: https://userinterfacing.com/if-youre-really-worried-about-the-github-acquisition-heres-what-to-look-out-for/ https://userinterfacing.com/if-youre-really-worried-about-th...
• grolimpio 8y ago
  I don't think we should be freaked out, GitHub is probably going to stay the way it is for free users and we might even have benefits like a free private repository. The only issue I have is with all that Microsoft propaganda about trusting them. If they want really make people believe that they are a new company, more open source friendly, they should stop they patent troll machine. They should stop making money with dodge patents and stop attacking Linux/Android open source projects with these patents. Most of big companies buy patents, but not all of them are patent troll, some of them buy patents as a defense mechanism against patent trolls like Microsoft.