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Re: Microsoft is acquiring GitHub!

From: Daniel Stenberg <daniel_at_haxx.se>
Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2018 10:52:33 +0200 (CEST)

On Mon, 4 Jun 2018, Patrick Monnerat wrote:

> RIP github: you were great!

Source hosting services come and go. We weren't always on github and I assume
we will move on to something else at some point in the future.

But github was always a proprietary system that offers a great free service
and I don't think the announced purchase is reason enough for us to react in
any particular way. There's no long-term guarantee for us on *any* service
anywhere.

Instead I think we should just live with the knowledge that the world is
brittle and that we might have to move on to another platform one day. Maybe
that is when github goes bad, maybe that is when another service pops up that
is so much more attractive so its worth the effort to move.

-- 
  / daniel.haxx.se
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Received on 2018-06-05