Of Git and M$

[Chris H]

On Tue, 19 Jun 2018 07:13:35 -0700 (PDT) "Roger Marquis" <marquis at roble.com> said

> Anonymous (Carmel NY) wrote:
> >> of course microsoft bought it to steal software more efficiently.
> >
> > Steal what? It is already freely available. This is just more FUD spread by
> > people who fail to comprehend the actual logistics of the situation.
That cats been out of the bag for a *long* time. It's called: NT. "stolen",
or not.
> 
> Unless you have a repo marked as private.  Good luck discovering the IP
> stolen from that.  Not an issue for FreeBSD you say, perhaps, embargos
> and pre-released dev code aside.
> 
> Passed their SOC2 audit?  Sadly, there are lots of ways around those.
> 
> Expect an update in the terms of service and/or privacy statement before
> long.  The resale value of the github analytics is the driving factor
> here.  No different from Skype et al.
> 
> Don't drink the cool-aid i.e., don't take sales and marketing efforts to
> paint this as an exclusively altruistic purchase at face value.
> 
> Roger
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