Re: [ros-dev] Microsoft acquires GitHub

[M. Ziggyesque]

Because I track what MS does same as I track ROS, and many other platforms. That’s what
they prefer to access MSDN, so I maintain the account. I’ve had a project as large as ROS,
and other email accounts, deleted out from under me over the years, so I may be more
cynical than the situation warrants, but it isn’t paranoia.



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From: Pierre Schweitzer &lt;pierre(a)reactos.org&gt;
Sent: Tuesday, June 5, 2018 1:46:55 PM
To: ReactOS Development List; M. Ziggyesque; David Quintana (gigaherz)
Subject: Re: [ros-dev] Microsoft acquires GitHub

Let's no be paranoid and make plans out of nothing please...

And if Microsoft are that evil, why are you using their mail services?

Le 05/06/2018 à 19:43, M. Ziggyesque a écrit :
>   No, I don't see it as pointless to have a plan B.
> It's more a question of when, not if, it's desirable, given past practices.
>
>  Even with no immediate changes, github can no longer be considered vendor-neutral. Down
> the road, as example, M$ may well try to require every project adopt their code-signing
> policy or the project gets deleted, so they get their kickbacks on all the certificate
> fees that would entail. ROS doesn't require code-signing?? DELETE!! They did similar
> when they bought out sysinternals, bloated all their utilities with certificates, so
> that's a distinct possibility.
>
>  While migrating the repo itself is easy, the issues list and other history is less so,
> plus the hassle of getting links on external pages to redirect to a new home; those would
> take some lead time so imo is better to have some plan than not.
>
>  ------ Original message------
>  From: David Quintana (gigaherz)
>  Date: Tue, Jun 5, 2018 4:40 AM
>  To: ReactOS Development List;
>  Cc:
>  Subject:Re: [ros-dev] Microsoft acquires GitHub
>
>  To elaborate further:
>
>    1.  The deal won't be closed for many months (they expect december)
>    2.  Microsoft probably won't change github at first (xcept maybe make the login
> integrate with a Microsoft Account)
>    3.  We don't know what they plan to do with the platform in the long term, so
> worrying now is pointless.
>    4.  We don't know that it will EVER be hostile toward ReactOS, even if they break
> the platform and make it unusable, so chances are we are good.
>    5.  If worst comes to worst, as Thomas said, we just say goodbye to GH and move
> elsewhere.
>
>
>  On 5 June 2018 at 10:36, Javier Agustìn Fernàndez Arroyo
> <[e-mail]<mailto:[e-mail]>> wrote:
>  great! :)
>
>  On Tue, Jun 5, 2018 at 10:34 AM, Thomas Faber
> <[e-mail]<mailto:[e-mail]>> wrote:
>  To elaborate, we're not dependent on GitHub in any significant way. It's
>  just convenient. But if it stops being so, it's easy to go elsewhere.
>  That's a key part of Git, being a "distributed" VCS.
>
>
>  On 2018-06-05 10:31, Oleksandr Shaposhnikov wrote:
> >   No it may not.
> >
> >  5 черв. 2018 р. 11:24 Javier Agustìn Fernàndez Arroyo
> > <[e-mail]<mailto:[e-mail]>> пише:
> >
> >       May this affect ReactOS?
> >
> >      
> > https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2018/06/04/microsoft-github-empowering-dev…
> >  
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