Wow!
Angry Brexiters looking to lambast the EU for anything of late are going to have a bit of dichotomy commenting on this if they also don't like MS.
Microsoft will find out on 19 October if EU regulators wave through its $7.5bn acquisition of GitHub, according to a filing published today. The filing, which was originally made on 14 September, makes a request for approval. EU competition regulators have until a provisional deadline of 19 October to either give the buyout …
"Angry Brexiters looking to lambast the EU for anything of late are going to have a bit of dichotomy commenting on this if they also don't like MS"
Brexiters are always in a permanent state of perpetual anger and the only thing that will change that is a complete severance from the EU which will, of course, destroy the UK's manufacturing base but they just don't care because ideology must reign supreme.
Too late. All my code has been deleted. This happened the day that the takeover was announced.
Probably too late but it is my code and really has zero commercial value to MS. The code only works with some IBM products and MS's equivalent product is a POS.
As far as I'm concerned, Microsoft can demand whatever they like in their T&C for GitHub. I've already removed all my projects from it shortly after Microsoft announced that they were buying it. That was the clear writing on the wall that GitHub became untrustworthy, as GitHub users would become much more vulnerable to Microsoft's terrible behavior.
Yup, the same sad sack outfit that foisted Imbecile Explorer on the world. I think in the case of Linkedin and GitHub Slurp does not really understand either business. Thus the real risk is not immediately but out a few years when they try to more tightly 'integrate'' either with their other products. Right now I have a barely ticking LinkedIn account; haven't been aggravated enough to pull the plug. I do not have any code stored on external repositories such as GitHub and no plans to use GitHub in the future; might look at GitLab if I do decide to use one.
Seems to me they should be told No, until MS stops slurping (without consent) the data of all EU users.
If they add options to Win 7 / 8.1 / 10 so the data slurp can be really turned off, and set it to off by default, that would bring things into line.
Until then, they're just proving they can't be trusted with anything, and should be told No as such.
Oh no! Oh woe! The big bad Microsoft (insert name-calling substitute here if so desired) is going to slurp all our code! We can no longer trust Github! We must remove all our files right now...!!!
To all those making these kind of noises: what's your go-to search engine? browser? What OS does your phone run on? Do you use social media of any kind?
... just sayin'...
> To all those making these kind of noises: what's your go-to search engine? browser? What OS does your phone run on? Do you use social media of any kind?
DuckDuckGoOnion, Palemoon, no phone, no social media.
Maybe a surprise to you, but the things you're trying to insinuate.. aren't really needed for a happy modern life.
Try going without sometime.
"DuckDuckGoOnion, Palemoon, no phone, no social media."
Nice going. If I knew who you were, I'd salute you!
You're right - those things are not really needed for a happy modern life. But the fact is that the vast majority of people do use these things.
Given that we of the technical community are charged with the responsibility of leading the way in this field, the fact that there are so many who still quite happily use the likes of - and even advocate - Google, Facebook et al's services while whining about Microsoft's data policies and track record gives me a sense of dread. Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it.
"The big bad Microsoft (insert name-calling substitute here if so desired) is going to slurp all our code!"
That's not even close to being my concern, since all the code I had on GitHub was open source or copyright-free anyway.
"To all those making these kind of noises: what's your go-to search engine? browser? What OS does your phone run on? Do you use social media of any kind?"
I genuinely don't see why the answers to this matter, but here are mine: Duck Duck Go, Waterfox, Heavily modified Android, and no.
CRINGE at the commenters saying they removed their repos from GitHub. As if anyone in the world cared about your hello worlds, lol. Yeah go ahead guys, I'm sure Microsoft is devastated and GitHub will effectively die now. Seriously, how can you be so out of touch with reality?
Also, is it just me or the EU is getting too out of hand, asking every company to comply with their rules, fining billions of dollars, requiring approval for buyouts, GDPR, article 13...
I forsee a trend of US companies refusing to operate in the EU if they keep going with this. Smaller companies will definitely think it twice.