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jon zingale

Re: Friam Digest, Vol 180, Issue 3

wow. perhaps this is why we can't have nice things.

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Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2018 09:56:14 -0600
Subject: [FRIAM] MS acquiring Github.
Yup, really:

I am very excited to announce that Microsoft is acquiring GitHub and expect the agreement to close by the end of the year. While it will still take a few months to finalize, we wanted to share the news as soon as we were able.

https://blog.github.com/2018-06-04-github-microsoft/

I dunno.

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Nick Thompson

Re: Friam Digest, Vol 180, Issue 3

Hi, Jon,

Nice to hear your voice! But, I confess, I didn’t understand the comment.

Nick

Nicholas S. Thompson

Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology

Clark University

http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/

From: Friam [mailto:[hidden email]] On Behalf Of Jon Zingale
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Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Friam Digest, Vol 180, Issue 3

wow. perhaps this is why we can't have nice things.

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1. MS acquiring Github. (Owen Densmore)

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Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2018 09:56:14 -0600
Subject: [FRIAM] MS acquiring Github.
Yup, really:

I am very excited to announce that Microsoft is acquiring GitHub and expect the agreement to close by the end of the year. While it will still take a few months to finalize, we wanted to share the news as soon as we were able.

https://blog.github.com/2018-06-04-github-microsoft/

I dunno.

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Marcus G. Daniels

Re: Friam Digest, Vol 180, Issue 3

There’s a generation of people that have an irrational dislike of Microsoft having to do with them being brutal competitors in the 1990s.

Never mind that they now have a huge research organization and are ahead of many in commercial deployment of advanced technologies, e.g.

https://github.com/aspnet/Blazor

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Date: Monday, June 4, 2018 at 2:06 PM
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Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Friam Digest, Vol 180, Issue 3

Hi, Jon,

Nice to hear your voice! But, I confess, I didn’t understand the comment.

Nick

Nicholas S. Thompson

Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology

Clark University

http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/

From: Friam [mailto:[hidden email]] On Behalf Of Jon Zingale
Sent: Monday, June 04, 2018 12:19 PM
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wow. perhaps this is why we can't have nice things.

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1. MS acquiring Github. (Owen Densmore)

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Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2018 09:56:14 -0600
Subject: [FRIAM] MS acquiring Github.

Yup, really:

I am very excited to announce that Microsoft is acquiring GitHub and expect the agreement to close by the end of the year. While it will still take a few months to finalize, we wanted to share the news as soon as we were able.

https://blog.github.com/2018-06-04-github-microsoft/

I dunno.

-- Owen

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Russell Standish-2

Re: Friam Digest, Vol 180, Issue 3

On Mon, Jun 04, 2018 at 08:16:10PM +0000, Marcus Daniels wrote:
> There’s a generation of people that have an irrational dislike of Microsoft having to do with them being brutal competitors in the 1990s.
> Never mind that they now have a huge research organization and are ahead of many in commercial deployment of advanced technologies, e.g.
> https://github.com/aspnet/Blazor

The risks MS pose to the hosted projects are no different to the risks
GitHub posed. These risks are real, eg Geocities, but can be
mitigated. Git is a fully distibuted repository, so if GitHub were to
disappear overnight, the repositories will exist with all the commit
metadata on all the developer machines out there that have cloned the
repositories. It is a simple exercise to populate a new Git repository
with the contents of a locally cloned copy. As a result, I do not
worry about the source code for the projects I'm involved in.

My biggest worry is that the bugtracker data (called "issues" on
Github) might disappear. For my own projects, I use SourceForge's
tracker, which IMHO is slightly nicer, and for historical reasons, but
the same risks exist. I have a python script that grabs the contents
of all open tickets for a project on SF. The data is a bit scrambled,
but at least it will be possible to reconstruct the tickets on a
different system if required. It is also useful to get a local copy of
open issues for when I'm working offline on my laptop.

Cheers
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Barry MacKichan

Re: Friam Digest, Vol 180, Issue 3

In reply to this post by jon zingale

An interesting note for the O’Reilly Programming letter:

“13,000 projects ditched GitHub for GitLab Monday morning

Gitlab told Motherboard that the company gained 50,000 new projects in the lead up to Microsoft's announcement that it acquired Github.”

--Barry

On 4 Jun 2018, at 12:18, Jon Zingale wrote:

wow. perhaps this is why we can't have nice things.

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Today's Topics:

1. MS acquiring Github. (Owen Densmore)

---------- Forwarded message ----------
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To: Wedtech <[hidden email]>, Complexity Coffee Group <[hidden email]>
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Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2018 09:56:14 -0600
Subject: [FRIAM] MS acquiring Github.
Yup, really:

I am very excited to announce that Microsoft is acquiring GitHub and expect the agreement to close by the end of the year. While it will still take a few months to finalize, we wanted to share the news as soon as we were able.

https://blog.github.com/2018-06-04-github-microsoft/

I dunno.

-- Owen

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