Anmol Sharma

anmol@pod.datamol.org

Why this fuss?

Anmol Sharma

Fri, 29 Jun 2018 14:58:04 -0700 last edited: Fri, 29 Jun 2018 15:06:10 -0700

Whats happening here? GitHub was never an opensource platform, then whats the big deal if its taken over by a big giant company?

#^★ j e r o e n ★ (@jeroenpraat@todon.nl)

Last night @Gargron@mastodon.social told me that he's not going to move the main repo away from #Microsoft's #GitHub!

#^https://todon.nl/@jeroenpraat/100288538843391265

Because 'some' corporate minded people told him so.

How's the #fork doing!?

#mastodev

Pete Moss

Fri, 29 Jun 2018 18:59:38 -0700

As n-gate.com so succinctly put it:

A near-monopoly closed-source software company, fed up with trying to seem like a good corporate citizen by releasing source code of their worst programs, is acquired by Microsoft.

Anmol Sharma

Fri, 29 Jun 2018 20:03:54 -0700

But can big private corporate put pressure to open-source projects to stay on GitHub? And why would they do so? What is there benefit in that?

Anmol Sharma

Fri, 29 Jun 2018 20:20:47 -0700

That being said HubZilla moved so silently to Farmagit . I did not even noticed it and the transaction was so smooth, there was no trouble at all. I love this maturity and thoughtfulness of the team. There was no noise like Mastodon.
I think quality overcomes the quantity. HubZilla may have less crowd but true fans.