GitHub is owned by Microsoft since 2018

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FYI! I just discovered this.

:slight_smile:

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It was big news back at the time, though for me, the exploration of Microsoft using Git for their own Windows project (they had needed to split Windows into something like 78 projects in their own tool as it was) and their reporting on that ~6-13 month test being so successful, lead a number of ~months (to a year) later on them purchasing GitHub.

The purchase of GitHub was the end of what I felt was an interesting ‘discovery’ period for Microsoft. They posted about it many times during that time too (ie. whilst it wasn’t as open as say I see Ubuntu development, they still blogged about their discoveries, good & bad)

Please note - what I’ve written above is from memory and not checked for factual details; thus my figures/dates are likely inaccurate

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I still prefer Sourceforge and not everybody has moved to GitHub. While a Linux user I am a casual user and GitHub is way to confusing for me. I need to see ‘download here’ and I seldom see that on GitHub.

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Unfortunately, yes—and it seems to get worse with every year that passes. I’ve personally moved my personal projects to Codeberg, which is non-profit, open organisation based in Germany. Their ethics align much more with mine and they genuinely seem like a good organisation. Also fun to see their little server moving updates.

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Reminded me of this topic: Anyone try this “Recall for Linux”?

MS also owns LinkedIn and Candy Crush (King). haha

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Some people went nuts when Microsoft took over ownership of GitHub. Though I haven’t seen or noticed anything overtly suspicious from Microsoft from this event, I believe that a Gitlab was created and there may be other Git clients or interfaces since the 2018 event; I had almost forgotten that until I was doing some other research and ran across that a few days ago; anyway it hasn’t “harmed” anything I’ve done one way or the other. I doubt that Microsoft would take a chance at doing something to increase distrust, not anything that Google hasn’t already done in collecting browsing information! That’s an entirely different topic that undoubtedly bothers many people. Incidentally I typically use noai.duckduckgo.com to handle my personal searching most of the time.

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