The only risk I can see in the situation is that Microsoft's usability team might well fix the peculiar and confusing nomenclature used. It is counter-intuitive to say the least to call comments on a version of a document a 'pull request' when no document is being pulled.
On Tue, Jun 5, 2018 at 4:50 AM, Kevin A. McGrail <kevin.mcgrail@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Ross Gardler also at the asf has convinced me over years that Microsoft is very committed to open source. I personally think it will improve things with github under their umbrella. He shared an internal memo with the ASF that also helped.
Bccing him and perhaps he will share here. At a minimum I am sure he would be interested to pass along concerns and questions.
Regards,
KAMOn June 4, 2018 5:46:17 PM EDT, John R Levine <johnl@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:News reports say that Microsoft is buying github for about $5 billion.
There's currently no reason to expect that Microsoft will change the way
it works, and some reason to expect they won't since there are more github
contributors from Microsoft than from any other organization (Facebook is
second), but for people who have problems with their projects depending
on a single large vendor, it's a single large vendor.
Bloomberg: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-06-03/ microsoft-is-said-to-have- agreed-to-acquire-coding-site- github
Financial Times: https://ftalphaville.ft.com/2018/06/04/1528114816000/Wot- is-Github/
Quartz: https://qz.com/1295693/github-users-already-fuming-about- companys-sale-to-microsoft/
Regards,
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