Quote from: Zelux on June 05, 2018, 08:27:33 PM

a lot of talking about this aquisition

https://developers.slashdot.org/story/18/06/04/0935200/microsofts-interest-in-buying-github-draws-backlash-from-developers

Quote from: Mxrider420z on June 05, 2018, 02:32:16 AM

Quote from: TheMatrix101 on June 04, 2018, 09:49:27 PM

Due to microsoft officially acquiring github, KORE team will no longer use github. Once the decided git platform is chosen the kore team github will only have a link pointing to the chosen git platform. To put it as kindly as I can, Microsoft DESTROYS anything it touches and are attempting to monopolize. I normally try to keep politics to a minimum in workplace here but I sincerely believe that the US gov will not do anything to stop microsoft from monopolizing as long as microsoft continues to hand over any and all personal data it collects to them. So, KORE team will move to another git project, dont yet know if we will be hosting our own git server or if we will use another source such as bitbucket. My personal and team github accounts will both be terminated and all my repos will be destroyed after they are moved. Microsoft is a dirty company and will likely change ToS of github so that they can abuse developers and developer rights so i would recommend everyone else do the same. I have no evidence to say that they WILL change tos, but their shady background makes me think it personally
from july to december of last year, the US gov asked for user data of over 40,000 people, microsoft rejected only 17.41% of those requests, and handed over data on almost 25,000 of those people including personal data of over 1.5k people

sauce: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/about/corporate-responsibility/lerr

in 2017 as a whole, github received 43 demands for user data and 35 of those demands were accompanied with a gag order (give us everything you know about the person and all his data you have and you are not allowed to tell him you gave us his data, additionally if he does anything more on your platform you are required to tell us)

year	total requests	gag orders
2014	10	4
2015	12	7
2016	34	27
2017	43	35

as you can see the gov is continually asking for more and more data on users and demanding the company be silent, going against your rights, from 2014 to 2017 the gov went from 10 requests in a year to over 40 requests a year, thats an increase of 320% whereas the amount that you were not notified went up 775% (by my math, might be a little shaky)

sauce: https://blog.github.com/2018-05-11-2017-transparency-report/

Matrix

Well said and explained Matrix.

Have a great night guys

Cheers

Yeah, lol
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