[Python-Dev] Microsoft to acquire GitHub for $7.5 b

[Alex Walters]

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> From: Python-Dev <python-dev-bounces+tritium-
> list=sdamon.com at python.org> On Behalf Of Ivan Pozdeev via Python-Dev
> Sent: Tuesday, June 5, 2018 10:01 PM
> To: python-dev at python.org
> Subject: Re: [Python-Dev] Microsoft to acquire GitHub for $7.5 b
> 
> On 05.06.2018 17:28, Martin Gainty wrote:
> who owns the Data hosted on Github?
> 
> Github Author?
> Microsoft?
> 
> Martin
> https://help.github.com/articles/github-terms-of-service/#d-user-
> generated-content :
> 
> "You own content you create, but you allow us certain rights to it, so
that we
> can display and share the content you post. You still have control over
your
> content, and responsibility for it, and the rights you grant us are
limited to
> those we need to provide the service. We have the right to remove content
> or close Accounts if we need to."
> 
> 
And this is not likely to change under Microsoft.  CodePlex had similar
language, as does BitBucket, GitLab, and pretty much any service that hosts
creative content that isn’t a social network (and even then, some of them do
too.)

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> M.-A. Lemburg <mal at egenix.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, June 5, 2018 7:54 AM
> To: Antoine Pitrou; python-dev at python.org
> Subject: Re: [Python-Dev] Microsoft to acquire GitHub for
> $7.5 billion
> 
> Something that may change is the way they treat Github
> accounts, after all, MS is very much a sales driven company.
> 
> But then there's always the possibility to move to Gitlab
> as alternative (hosted or run on PSF VMs), so I would
> worry too much.
> 
> Do note, however, that the value in Github is not so much
> with
> the products they have, but with the data. Their databases
> know more about IT developer than anyone else and given
> that Github is put under the AI umbrella in MS should tell
> us something :-)
> 
> 
> On 04.06.2018 19:02, Antoine Pitrou wrote:
> >
> > That's true, but Microsoft has a lot of stakes in the
> ecosystem.
> > For example, since it has its own CI service that it tries to
> promote
> > (VSTS), is it in Microsoft's best interest to polish and
> improve
> > integrations with other CI services?
> >
> > Regards
> >
> > Antoine.
> >
> >
> > On Mon, 4 Jun 2018 09:06:28 -0700
> > Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote:
> >> On Mon, Jun 4, 2018 at 8:40 AM, Antoine Pitrou
> <solipsis at pitrou.net> wrote:
> >>
> >>>
> >>> On Mon, 4 Jun 2018 17:03:27 +0200
> >>> Victor Stinner <vstinner at redhat.com> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> At this point, I have no opinion about the event :-) I just
> guess that
> >>>> it should make GitHub more sustainable since Microsoft
> is a big
> >>>> company with money and interest in GitHub. I'm also
> confident that
> >>>> nothing will change soon. IMHO there is no need to
> worry about
> >>>> anything.
> >>>
> >>> It does spell uncertainty on the long term.  While there is
> no need to
> >>> worry for now, I think it gives a different colour to the
> debate about
> >>> moving issues to Github.
> >>>
> >>
> >> I don't see how this *increases* the uncertainty. Surely if
> GitHub had
> >> remained independent there would have been be similar
> concerns about how it
> >> would make enough money to stay in business.
> >>
> >
> >
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