Of Git and M$

[Wojciech Puchar]

anyway i don't understand people letting everything less or more simple to 
be done "in cloud" which sooner or later ALWAYS means collected in hands 
or some large corpo.

On Tue, 19 Jun 2018, Roger Marquis wrote:

> 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.
>
> 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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