From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Thu Jun 7 13:07:35 2018 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B2C05FE6F4A for ; Thu, 7 Jun 2018 13:07:35 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from galtsev@kicp.uchicago.edu) Received: from cosmo.uchicago.edu (cosmo.uchicago.edu [128.135.20.71]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5F6ED8F953 for ; Thu, 7 Jun 2018 13:07:35 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from galtsev@kicp.uchicago.edu) Received: by cosmo.uchicago.edu (Postfix, from userid 48) id E4B63CB8D34; Thu, 7 Jun 2018 08:07:28 -0500 (CDT) Received: from 108.68.163.235 (SquirrelMail authenticated user valeri) by cosmo.uchicago.edu with HTTP; Thu, 7 Jun 2018 08:07:28 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <55268.108.68.163.235.1528376848.squirrel@cosmo.uchicago.edu> In-Reply-To: References: <20180607004713.GA5071@doctor.nl2k.ab.ca> <20180607081203.f74acbb7802284800060ad93@sohara.org> Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2018 08:07:28 -0500 (CDT) Subject: Re: Microsoft github acquisition official From: "Valeri Galtsev" To: "FreeBSD" Reply-To: galtsev@kicp.uchicago.edu User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.8-5.el5.centos.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Importance: Normal X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.26 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2018 13:07:35 -0000 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 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 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++