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Comment by EastSmith

8 years ago

I am very interested in what will happen with these accounts (t name a few) the next few weeks / months:

https://github.com/torvalds/linux https://github.com/mozilla https://github.com/google

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voltagex_  8 years ago

What do you think will happen?

What advantage would any change bring for Microsoft?

(/torvalds/linux is not the upstream, btw)

  • EastSmith  8 years ago

    I am expecting the owners of these sort of accounts to just move away. I am certainly not expecting MS to mess with the accounts in any way.

    Another issue: Lets say I am a small business competing with MS on some very small niche market. Lets say all my code is on a private github repository. Would I stay on GitHub for a moment after this news? I mean I know these are separate companies (Microsoft and GitHub), but I still will be moving away right now.

    • voltagex_  8 years ago

      A bit like if you're a bookshop running your online site on AWS.

      The downside risk for Amazon messing with anything is greater than any benefit they could gain.

      I mean, Microsoft has a kernel module upstreamed. It's not 1990 anymore.