I know a lot of people don't like n-gate and webshit weekly, but I think their slice on this was particularly relevant: > Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to A

I know a lot of people don't like n-gate and webshit weekly, but I think their slice on this was particularly relevant: > Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub > A near-monopoly closed-source software company, fed up with trying to seem like a good corporate citizen by releasing source code of their worst programs, is acquired by Microsoft. When you combine that with the concerns from the article: > They fear that the site will become less open (it's not currently "open" in any significant way now, bar that there are free public accounts. They don't even have a public f-ing bug tracker for site issues) > Open Science is not compatible with one corporation owning the platform used to collaborate on code (It was already owned by one corporation, the Github corporation. Now it's owned by a different one. It's not like GH was some kind of open source alliance distributed project or anything)