Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2018 08:07:28 -0500 (CDT) From: "Valeri Galtsev" <galtsev@kicp.uchicago.edu> To: "FreeBSD" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Microsoft github acquisition official Message-ID: <55268.108.68.163.235.1528376848.squirrel@cosmo.uchicago.edu> In-Reply-To: <DM5PR20MB2102C56161FAEE50EB3B7F6A80640@DM5PR20MB2102.namprd20.prod.ou tlook.com> References: <SN1PR20MB2109A23794ADA17245680B9880640@SN1PR20MB2109.namprd20.prod.outlook.com> <20180607004713.GA5071@doctor.nl2k.ab.ca> <20180607081203.f74acbb7802284800060ad93@sohara.org> <DM5PR20MB2102C56161FAEE50EB3B7F6A80640@DM5PR20MB2102.namprd20.prod.outlook.com>
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On Thu, June 7, 2018 4:20 am, Carmel NY wrote: > On Thu, 7 Jun 2018 08:12:03 +0100, Steve O'Hara-Smith stated: > >>On Wed, 6 Jun 2018 18:47:13 -0600 >>The Doctor <doctor@doctor.nl2k.ab.ca> wrote: >> >>> On Thu, Jun 07, 2018 at 12:21:34AM +0000, Carmel NY wrote: >>> > I just heard that the deal was official. Microsoft acquired Github >>> for >>> > 7.5 billion dollars. >>> > >>> > https://www.theverge.com/2018/6/4/17422788/microsoft-github-acquisition-official-deal >>> > >>> >>> Definitely the case! >>> >>> Time for an opengit.org! >> >> Erm Gitlab ? From the Gitlab wikipedia entry: >> >>---------------- >>In June 2018, the acquisition of competitor GitHub by Microsoft[24][25] >>caused a migration of over 250,000 projects to GitLab[26]. >>---------------- >> >> and June's hardly started. >> > > "gitlab" isn't free though. > Nothing is free. The electric bills, network service, hardware, sysadmins, programmers and engineers are to be paid. If you are let use something "for free" it just means you are paying some other way. Say, in case of google "free" services at the very minimum you are paying by facilitating big brother's job... Valeri > -- > Carmel > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Valeri Galtsev Sr System Administrator Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics University of Chicago Phone: 773-702-4247 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
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