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

From: "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: Michael Nolan <htfoot(at)gmail(dot)com>, "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: 2018-06-04 17:15:22
Message-ID: a2b2acf8-ae9d-85dd-3d10-99f2db8ee2a0@commandprompt.com
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On 06/04/2018 10:10 AM, Michael Nolan wrote:
> Microsoft has bought GitHub for $7.5 billion, is this a threat to the
> open source community?

No but it does show why using non open source platforms for open source
projects is an inherently bad idea.

/me stumbles off to the Postgres slack channel which is quite a bit
larger than the irc channel.

JD

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