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Re: Microsoft might buy GitHub

Posted: 2018-06-06 14:12
by n_hologram
Speaking of "corporations in my foss," what's up with Google and Gitlab?

https://about.gitlab.com/2018/04/05/gke ... tegration/

Re: Microsoft might buy GitHub

Posted: 2018-06-06 17:25
by llivv
I stumbled upon this while trying to verify a story I heard a few weeks ago about the arrest of the TOR lead, ( still unverified ).

Anyways, The Register reports:
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/06/0 ... r_actions/


hologram you have to go back to the M$ vs Google court case the DOJ ruled on back near the turn of the century for many of googles actions since that verdict.

many despise google for their privacy issues. I personally believe that phones are now the biggest privacy violaters on the planet.
Unrivaled by many many other means, both legal and illegal, to violate personal privacies now available.
But, one has to be or/either finely tuned or/and very unlucky to even hear mention of many of them, as they are unusally someone elses secret. As if

Re: Microsoft might buy GitHub

Posted: 2018-06-06 19:15
by debiman
n_hologram wrote:Speaking of "corporations in my foss," what's up with Google and Gitlab?

https://about.gitlab.com/2018/04/05/gke ... tegration/
hmm.
so is this now becoming
gitlab vs. github == google vs. microsoft???

Re: Microsoft might buy GitHub

Posted: 2018-06-06 19:29
by HuangLao

Re: Microsoft might buy GitHub

Posted: 2018-06-07 05:21
by Innovate
Am I hallucination? that... it smells like codeplex2 & google code2?

Re: Microsoft might buy GitHub

Posted: 2018-06-07 17:58
by Wheelerof4te
So we see you are trending bad stuff against us. What if we were to...censor it? :twisted:
https://twitter.com/UpEnd_org/status/10 ... 1643275264

Re: Microsoft might buy GitHub

Posted: 2018-06-07 20:13
by llewellen
debiman wrote:
n_hologram wrote:Speaking of "corporations in my foss," what's up with Google and Gitlab?

https://about.gitlab.com/2018/04/05/gke ... tegration/
hmm.
so is this now becoming
gitlab vs. github == google vs. microsoft???
If this truly is the only practical choice in the short term, choose github/MS. MS is very big and very muscular but ultimately dull and plodding. Google is very big and very muscular but cunning, fast and malevolent (viz. Google and the World Brain https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2551516/).

Re: Microsoft might buy GitHub

Posted: 2018-06-08 02:05
by n_hologram
I would not call Sergey Brin big or muscular but I get your point.

Both corporations have histories of their own unique atrocities; MS would do the same, if only they'd the power. It seems that Google might dethrone the formidable Microsoft, a kind of fallen glory.
Henry, Prince of Wales wrote:For worms, brave Ballimer: fare thee well, great heart!
Ill-weaved ambition, how much art thou shrunk!
When that this tower did contain XP,
A kingdom for it was too small a bound;
But now two paces of the server farm
Is room enough

Re: Microsoft might buy GitHub

Posted: 2018-06-08 06:24
by debiman
debiman wrote:
n_hologram wrote:Speaking of "corporations in my foss," what's up with Google and Gitlab?

https://about.gitlab.com/2018/04/05/gke ... tegration/
hmm.
so is this now becoming
gitlab vs. github == google vs. microsoft???
i phrased this as a question, not a fact.
if someone can contribute to answering both above questions, i'd like to hear more!
meanwhile, i am reading that gitlab.com is running on azure. eargh!

but, gitlab is also open source software and runs on other servers, too.

Re: Microsoft might buy GitHub

Posted: 2018-06-08 11:58
by Wheelerof4te
The official reaction of The Linux Foundation:
https://www.linuxfoundation.org/blog/mi ... -reaction/
Not surprising since:
Why the sudden change? This is not a sudden change. Microsoft has become a top contributor to Linux and Kubernetes, they develop and distribute Linux-based products, they open sourced .NET, and they are backers of The Linux Foundation
EDIT: Oh, and let this sink in, too:
http://techrights.org/2016/03/08/microsoft-eee-eclipse/
http://techrights.org/2016/03/10/charm- ... -distract/
Totally wasn't expected. No, not at all. /s

Re: Microsoft might buy GitHub

Posted: 2018-06-08 16:15
by llewellen
EDIT: Oh, and let this sink in, too:
http://techrights.org/2016/03/08/microsoft-eee-eclipse/
http://techrights.org/2016/03/10/charm- ... -distract/
Totally wasn't expected. No, not at all. /s
Anyone who believes even one word uttered by MS or google is too naive to be allowed outdoors unaccompanied. To the extent that people are capable of and actually avoid the products and services of MS and google they lose revenue. So, either kill FOSS or co-opt it into the revenue stream in one way or another. Any other purported explanation or justification is cynical, deceitful blather meant to distract.

Re: Microsoft might buy GitHub

Posted: 2018-06-09 23:14
by pawRoot
None1975 wrote:So here are the basic laws of capitalism. Microsoft is expanding, hijacking the growing markets. Otherwise it can not be. By destroying small-scale production, capital leads to an increase in productivity of labour and to the creation of a monopoly position for the associations of big capitalists. Capitalism has triumphed all over the world, but this triumph is only the prelude to the triumph of labour over capital.
If you hate capitalism so much you can always move to Venezuela, i heard that communism is working fine for them.

Re: Microsoft might buy GitHub

Posted: 2018-06-09 23:26
by llewellen
If you hate capitalism so much you can always move to Venezuela, i heard that communism is working fine for them.
Why move? Why not work to change or improve the politico-economic system where one lives?

Re: Microsoft might buy GitHub

Posted: 2018-06-09 23:40
by pawRoot
llewellen wrote:
If you hate capitalism so much you can always move to Venezuela, i heard that communism is working fine for them.
Why move? Why not work to change or improve the politico-economic system where one lives?
Of course you can stay in your country and fight to have another Venezuela :lol:

Re: Microsoft might buy GitHub

Posted: 2018-06-10 00:15
by Head_on_a_Stick
pawRoot wrote:i heard that communism is working fine for them
The Communist Manifesto does state quite clearly that the proposed economic system cannot co-exist with Capitalism.

Also, you might want to ask the folks in Spain & Italy how Capitalism is working for them.

Capitalism failed back in 2008 and now only "works" for the very rich.

But anyway, enough of the politics... :twisted:

Re: Microsoft might buy GitHub

Posted: 2018-06-10 00:49
by llewellen
Capitalism failed back in 2008 and now only "works" for the very rich.

But anyway, enough of the politics...
Capitalism has only ever worked from the very beginning of its misbegotten incarnation with state intervention and support. Consider, for example, where would capitalism be today if the concept of limited liability corporations had not been legislated into existence as a stop loss mechanism for capitalist investors.

But enough of politico-economic theory. What's the latest credible flavour of Linux to surface? :)

Re: Microsoft might buy GitHub

Posted: 2018-06-10 04:15
by pawRoot
Name one country that wasn't destroyed by communism.
Communism is for people who failed at life and blame everything just not themselves, evil corporations blablabla.
Head_on_a_Stick wrote: Also, you might want to ask the folks in Spain & Italy how Capitalism is working for them.
How did it work for them ? i don't know anything about Italy or Spain failing because of capitalism.
Head_on_a_Stick wrote: Capitalism failed back in 2008 and now only "works" for the very rich.
You are free to go and create another Microsoft, then buy tons of other companies, just maybe you are just not smart enough, no offence.

Re: Microsoft might buy GitHub

Posted: 2018-06-10 06:35
by debiman
[OT]
the word capitalism contains "Capital", and i'm indeed somewhat against that idea: that amassing huge amounts of capital is the way to go.
i always preferred the term "Market Economy", esp. as in "Social Market Economy". This is a system that is working (how well is up for judgement) in most countries in the world. i don't really want to change that.
i think it's most important to strike a balance between the "social" and the "market economy".
i'm glad i live in a country that does that fairly well, afaics.
i wouldn't want to live in a country whose goverment thinks that the "social" bit is just cruft and ballast from the past, and needs to be eradicated.

Re: Microsoft might buy GitHub

Posted: 2018-06-10 08:35
by Head_on_a_Stick
llewellen wrote:What's the latest credible flavour of Linux to surface? :)
I like Xebian, I have a soft spot for Debian stable based distributions and they have a lovely desktop :)

Oh, and Devuan have their ASCII release out, with an OpenRC boot option!
pawRoot wrote:You are free to go and create another Microsoft, then buy tons of other companies
I have no desire to sequester the wealth of the world away from it's inhabitants.
ohnonot wrote:This is a system that is working
Any system that allows over 5 million children a year to die of starvation while the richest few wallow in disgusting luxury is fundamentally broken, IMO.

And remember folks: the government is part of the problem, not part of the solution :mrgreen:

Re: Microsoft might buy GitHub

Posted: 2018-06-10 08:50
by Wheelerof4te
[OT last time]

Capitalism is in it's economic sense same as Fascism. Only those with power can get wealthy, so you have the famous 1% at the top, 25-30% in the middle, while the rest struggle to survive and eat crumbs that fall from the others. The fact you never see this side of story is easily explained: media controled by the rich. Just go to your local news site, what are they writing about? Also, you get the decline of cultural values, the reality shows, sex promoted as a commodity, rise of all kinds of minority complexes into the public eyes, etc..

Social Democracy with the proper referendum system in place (such as the one in Switzerland) with the mix of high-taxes social economy taken from the Scandinavian countries is the way to go. Socialism as the phase towards Communism (which actually never took place anywhere, ever) takes too long and imporvishes people, so in the end they always rebel before ascending to the Communism phase.

Every extreme is bad, no matter how good the idea may seem. If you need any proof of Capitalism's failure, just take this recent aquisition as an example. Microsoft just brought gigantic market share just using virtual stock bonds that at the time valued 7,5 billion $. By the next few months, those could have valued maybe 5 billion. In Capitalism, who controls the prices, the value and the market share? If your answe is "the market", then you are dellusional.