GitHub to become part of Microsoft?

[t2van]

Not sure this is great news:

Microsoft is moving GitHub even more closely into its CoreAI team, following the resignation of GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke today. After nearly four years as CEO, Dohmke is leaving GitHub to “become a startup founder again,” and pursue opportunities outside of Microsoft and GitHub.

GitHub just got less independent at Microsoft after CEO resignation

GitHub will be part of Microsoft’s AI engineering team

www.theverge.com

Can personally see a lot of open source projects if MS do decide to eat Git internally not being open source no more ... just because MS has a great track record of not being "evil" and playing fair like...

 

[Skyrocket]

Microsoft already owns Github, what are you talking about?

 

[t2van]

Microsoft already owns Github, what are you talking about?

It was independently run before. Now it's being absorbed by the AI department. So it will become OWNED and RUN BY Microsoft.

 

[ggmopa]

Microsoft already owns Github, what are you talking about?

I think he means they will no longer be allowed to run essentially like a subsidary with some independence

Time to start taking Gitlab more seriously?

 

[Skyrocket]

It was independently run before. Now it's being absorbed by the AI department. So it will become OWNED and RUN BY Microsoft.

OK, who cares. Everything is owned by corporations anyway.

 

[ggmopa]

Does this mean there will be less legal barriers to using github projects as datasets now? Or did they do that anyway