That's an odd article. It claims to be about the alternatives, but then the alternatives are only briefly mentioned in a single short paragraph halfway through.
On top of that it doesn't really say much about the alternatives, somehow even forgetting to mention that GitLab is one of those alternatives, having cold-introduced it earlier in the article.
I don't think MS will go full Sourceforge, you never go full Sourceforge...
But seriously - shouldn't people, if they think that there _ever_ will be a problem with MS owning GitHub, prepare for a backup solution instead of going in full panic mode and moving repos off left, right and center?
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:
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.
I use an instance, not for this but similar personal use.
You can run a micro for (close to?) free and if you're doing nothing on it, that should be fine.
Unless you have huge codebases checking in I think the built in storage would be fine
I do the same thing with an ip whitelist on my security group so it's hopefully pretty bullet proof.
I added a little bit more to it, you can also fairly easy make a lambda function that runs a minimal login page, takes a password and adds your IP to the whitelist
Not a lot of work at all. I used boto3 for python.
If the purchase freaks you out, ask yourself if your existence is rooted in the truth and present, or in the past, where Ballmer's MSFT was an adversary of the open-source/Linux community
>> If the purchase freaks you out, ask yourself if your existence is rooted in the truth and present, or in the past, where Ballmer's MSFT was an adversary of the open-source/Linux community
The truth is that Microsoft spent decades destroying and hindering competition every way they could to create and sustain a monopoly. The present is a few years of good behavior.
People are allowed to be wary. People are not obligated to give them another chance.
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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, if they think that there _ever_ will be a problem with MS owning GitHub, prepare for a backup solution instead of going in full panic mode and moving repos off left, right and center?
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-th...
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.
You can run a micro for (close to?) free and if you're doing nothing on it, that should be fine.
Unless you have huge codebases checking in I think the built in storage would be fine
I do the same thing with an ip whitelist on my security group so it's hopefully pretty bullet proof.
I added a little bit more to it, you can also fairly easy make a lambda function that runs a minimal login page, takes a password and adds your IP to the whitelist
Not a lot of work at all. I used boto3 for python.
https://aws.amazon.com/codecommit/
The truth is that Microsoft spent decades destroying and hindering competition every way they could to create and sustain a monopoly. The present is a few years of good behavior.
People are allowed to be wary. People are not obligated to give them another chance.