<story><title>Microsoft acquires Github</title><url>https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2018/06/04/microsoft-github-empowering-developers/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nimbius</author><text>Friendly reminder: this is the same Microsoft that &amp;quot;empowered&amp;quot; skype and once called open source a cancer.  Its the same Microsoft that ruined open document standards and started the browser wars.&lt;p&gt;I wouldnt be surprised to see next years release of &amp;quot;Github Pro Platinum with Minecraft 3D and Windows Store integration&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;For those looking to move, &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;gitlab.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;gitlab.com&lt;/a&gt; is an excellent open source alternative that can easily import all your github projects.  &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;gitea.io&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;gitea.io&lt;/a&gt; is also available and runs on as little as a raspberry pi.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rkangel</author><text>&amp;gt; once called open source a cancer&lt;p&gt;There are some really good arguments as to why we should be worried about Microsoft so can we please stop ruining them by using this complete misquote as a component.&lt;p&gt;This comment covers it well:&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; This is disingenuous. He was referring to the licensing model of certain open-source projects, where the introduction of a single line of code coming from an open source project would require the whole of the Windows stack to be open-source, effectively &amp;quot;contaminating&amp;quot; the rest of the stack. To this day this is still a problem to many companies and legal department must carefully review the licensing of the libraries used by their devs.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=17225806&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=17225806&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>Microsoft acquires Github</title><url>https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2018/06/04/microsoft-github-empowering-developers/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nimbius</author><text>Friendly reminder: this is the same Microsoft that &amp;quot;empowered&amp;quot; skype and once called open source a cancer.  Its the same Microsoft that ruined open document standards and started the browser wars.&lt;p&gt;I wouldnt be surprised to see next years release of &amp;quot;Github Pro Platinum with Minecraft 3D and Windows Store integration&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;For those looking to move, &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;gitlab.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;gitlab.com&lt;/a&gt; is an excellent open source alternative that can easily import all your github projects.  &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;gitea.io&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;gitea.io&lt;/a&gt; is also available and runs on as little as a raspberry pi.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hobofan</author><text>Also the company that was responsible for killing the Limux project[0].&lt;p&gt;[0]: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;LiMux&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;LiMux&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>