To everyone who thinks MS is going to do something malicious with their code now that they own GH:
Your code was already open source. There has never been any physical barrier preventing shady folks from using your legitimate code in shady ways. There are laws and OSS licenses to protect you so that you can sue anyone who tries to do anything shady with your code.
If MS wanted to do something shady with your code, they could/would have done it already, except that they would have been sued for it. And this is still the case. Nothing has magically changed to make the law not apply to them now that they own GH. They acquired GH the company and GH the platform, but they did not acquire your code.
Furthermore, MS has only proven themselves to be great stewards of every major platform they've acquired: Xamarin, Linkedin, Minecraft, Skype, they are all much healthier companies and better products now than they were when MS bought them. Likewise, GH will continue to be the same great product, but will have a healthier company and with more experienced leadership pushing it forward.
The author refers to binaries/build artifacts, not the source. Source code is still tracked by git which does a decent job of making tampering difficult.
Microsoft has a record of not contesting in court requests from the US government. As a Canadian, I do not trust Microsoft to do the right thing.
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To everyone who thinks MS is going to do something malicious with their code now that they own GH:
Your code was already open source. There has never been any physical barrier preventing shady folks from using your legitimate code in shady ways. There are laws and OSS licenses to protect you so that you can sue anyone who tries to do anything shady with your code.
If MS wanted to do something shady with your code, they could/would have done it already, except that they would have been sued for it. And this is still the case. Nothing has magically changed to make the law not apply to them now that they own GH. They acquired GH the company and GH the platform, but they did not acquire your code.
Furthermore, MS has only proven themselves to be great stewards of every major platform they've acquired: Xamarin, Linkedin, Minecraft, Skype, they are all much healthier companies and better products now than they were when MS bought them. Likewise, GH will continue to be the same great product, but will have a healthier company and with more experienced leadership pushing it forward.
The author refers to binaries/build artifacts, not the source. Source code is still tracked by git which does a decent job of making tampering difficult.
Microsoft has a record of not contesting in court requests from the US government. As a Canadian, I do not trust Microsoft to do the right thing.