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It's actually open source itself. I was pretty shocked to find out that GitHub isn't (it's the face of open source!).
by solarkraft 6y ago
It's actually open source itself. I was pretty shocked to find out that GitHub isn't (it's the face of open source!).
- marcus_holmes 6y agoAlso owned by Microsoft. I mean, I get the "new" Microsoft. And I get that this is mostly a street-cred move by them, and they'll try to not mess it up by interfering with it. But still. That's now. What happens when the next shake-up comes and there's a push by the accountants to make money off everything, that's the important bit. It's like Atlassian taking over Trello. They'll mess it up, it's just a matter of when not if.
- ClikeX 6y agoJust to clarify here. It's only been owned by Microsoft for about a year now. Before that they were their own company. And as far as I know, the source was never OSS to begin with. Microsoft didn't swoop in and lock it down. It was already like that. In case anybody wondered if Github was closed-source because of Microsoft.
- marcus_holmes 6y agoyeah, good point