Will Godfrey <willgodfrey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > I've just read on The Register that there are discussions between > GitHub and Microsoft, with a possible buy-out by Microsoft. I really > can't think of a worse possibility :( I can. A buyout by Oracle. Though Oracle tends to kill projects fast enough not to take everyone's enthusiasm with them and so replacements pop up. Microsoft tends to just sap all joy out and eventually people don't know why they ever cared and are too tired to create something new. But basically that's what startups and venture capital are for: build a business until it's large and robust convincing enough that one of the established big players will pay big money in order to never hear of it again. -- David Kastrup _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
