3 ms·

I dunno the underlying tone to this message, but given the absolutely staggering number of MIT licensed repos under github.com/Microsoft I don't know that such

I dunno the underlying tone to this message, but given the absolutely staggering number of MIT licensed repos under github.com/Microsoft I don't know that such a thing would be as bad as you envision Now that GitLab is public, that's who I'd want to buy them, and there's precedent since (a) GitLab has already swallowed quite a few open source dev-tooling companies and (b) they already have a Sourcegraph integration so it would be very low drama to just fold it into the core offering and get rid of that stupid Elasticsearch dep

throwaway290 2y ago
> given the absolutely staggering number of MIT licensed repos under github.com/Microsoft I don't know that such a thing would be as bad as you envision Well they keep their main stuff carefully closed. Github isn't open source for example:) And simply think would they pay Github the money they paid (or any money at all) if it was open source like Gitlab? I guess if you say it's public and autonomous I wouldn't mind if Gitlab bought Sourcegraph. If MS did it I would mind a ton