On Sun, 03 Jun 2018 09:29:05 +0200 David Kastrup <dak@xxxxxxx> wrote: >Robin Gareus <robin@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > >> On 06/02/2018 10:00 AM, Will Godfrey wrote: >>> 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 :( >>> >> >> And this matters how? >> >> git is completely decentralized. Most git repos do already exist, >> mirrored, in various places simultaneously. If you only push your >> project to github.com, and mirror it nowhere else, you're doing it >> wrong. > >You don't know GitHub, right? You can clone a Git repository from >GitHub, but the normal workflow is to create merge requests and accept >them, either of which require a GitHub account. And while you can >readily clone a Github repository and work without GitHub on it, you >lose access to the discussions around merge requests, the issue trackers >and everything else regarding the project management. > >It sounds like being based off Git makes you avoid lock-in, but that >only concerns the repository and there is a whole lot more. > I'm also mindful of Microsoft's well known 4 Es. Yes, watching recent events I've come to the concusion they've added a new insidious one. It's now: Embrace *Encapsulate* Extend Extinguish -- Will J Godfrey http://www.musically.me.uk Say you have a poem and I have a tune. Exchange them and we can both have a poem, a tune, and a song. _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
