Re: Microsoft buys GitHub, is this a threat to open-source

From: Adam Tauno Williams <awilliam(at)whitemice(dot)org>
To: Paul Linehan <linehanp(at)tcd(dot)ie>, Michael Nolan <htfoot(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: "pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Microsoft buys GitHub, is this a threat to open-source
Date: 2018-06-07 10:56:47
Message-ID: 1528369007.3672.1.camel@whitemice.org
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On Thu, 2018-06-07 at 11:54 +0100, Paul Linehan wrote:
> Only to the extent that GitHub was a threat before this. They never
> embraced Open Source!
> They cynically portrayed themselves as the developer's best pal when,
> in fact, they are/were nothing more and nothing less than another
> commerical software company!
> I was planning to start using GitLab before this announcement, but
> thechange will not affect my  decision one bit - it had been made
> anyway!

Sourceforge! They're entire platform is Open Source, they support git,
and they integrate with a variety of common open source packages.

https://sourceforge.net/
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