Microsoft acquires GitHub

Posted Jun 4, 2018 13:18 UTC (Mon) by zoobab (guest, #9945)
Parent article: Microsoft acquires GitHub

"to provide an open platform"

Github is not open source.

I will remove all my projects from there as now on.

Microsoft acquires GitHub

Posted Jun 4, 2018 13:53 UTC (Mon) by hrw (subscriber, #44826) [Link]

It was not open source anyway.

Microsoft acquires GitHub

Posted Jun 4, 2018 15:01 UTC (Mon) by dsommers (subscriber, #55274) [Link]

>> "to provide an open platform"
>
> Github is not open source.

With all due respect .... this announcement mentions "open source" only twice. And none of them speaks of GitHub as being open source.

1) "Microsoft Corporate Vice President Nat Friedman, founder of Xamarin and an open source veteran, will assume the role of GitHub CEO."

2) GitHub is home for modern developers and the world’s most popular destination for open source projects and software innovation.

I don't recall any place in any time where GitHub has been considered being open source. It got momentum as sourceforge.net, freshmeat.net/freecode.net and the likes failed to follow the evolution of web based service platforms over a longer time.

GitHub is by far better, from a web service point of view, than many of the alternatives. Which is why open source projects have more or less embraced it. Which gives the advantage that "every developer" is on GitHub. On a personal level, I like GitLab far better, which is also quite a bit more open source friendly - especially on the service side.