https://blog.github.com/2018-06-04-github-microsoft/

Victor Lazzarini

Dean of Arts, Celtic Studies, and Philosophy

Maynooth University

Ireland

A colleague of mine wrote to me as follows (my edit):

“Nothing to fear. They have shown Microsoft is a very different company and they love open source. I know some folks at github and they desperately needed cash, now they have it. Microsoft also fixed git to work with large files years ago: They have proven they are giving back many times. https://github.com/Microsoft/gvfs.

Apple is the new Microsoft they need to start giving back.”

 

@dw

 

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From: Csound-developers <CSOUND-DEV@LISTSERV.HEANET.IE> on behalf of Michael Gogins <michael.gogins@GMAIL.COM>
Reply-To: Csound-developers <CSOUND-DEV@LISTSERV.HEANET.IE>
Date: Monday, June 4, 2018 at 4:16 PM
To: "CSOUND-DEV@LISTSERV.HEANET.IE" <CSOUND-DEV@LISTSERV.HEANET.IE>
Subject: Re: [Csnd-dev] official news

 

As I said it's best not to do anything, which would steal work from us

developers, unless there is an actual need!

 

So far, there is no indication of any changes to our license, our

GitHub terms of use, the kind of facilities provided to open source

developers, or to the cost of the service.

 

It can be argued this is a two way deal. Microsoft is using and

contributing more open source code, at the same time as it is buying

an open source company. I think Microsoft recognizes a need to adapt

to a software world increasingly based on Unix, Linux, and operating

systems derived from them (iOS from BSD Unix and Android from the

Linux kernel). I think Microsoft is trying to do an "IBM," to move on

to new products and services now that their original success with

Windows is fading, and the Windows phone OS has tanked.

 

Regards,

Mike

 

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Irreducible Productions

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On Mon, Jun 4, 2018 at 4:56 PM, Peter Burgess

<pete.soundtechnician@gmail.com> wrote:

Yeah I saw this, what do you guys think of that? I'm not keen on the idea, i

try to avoid microsoft at all costs

 

On Mon, 4 Jun 2018, 16:53 Victor Lazzarini, <Victor.Lazzarini@mu.ie> wrote:

 

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Victor Lazzarini

Dean of Arts, Celtic Studies, and Philosophy

Maynooth University

Ireland