I am not a techie person, and will struggle with the finer points of how GitHub's core business can/might be affected by the buyout in terms of the platform for development, itself. However, I've pretty much come to learn over my several decades that bigger is rarely better, that combinations rarely serve the public good, and that bigger mergers are worse than smaller ones. When a giant like Microsoft buys out the world's largest development platform it raise questions. Well... or at least for me, it does. Are there no anti-trust issues here? Is a megacorparation already determining all (or most) of our home-based computer operability the place we want controlling much of our future programming?
Now, I am still a relative newbie to Steemit, so correct me if I am wrong, but does not all of our development and hardfork work take place via the GitHub system? I know Microsoft has already been in trouble before for both antitrust violations (or at least antitrust charges have been considered before) and for being biased against certain points of view. Do we, as a community dedicated to even-handedness and fair play want to be dependent for all future development on a platform controlled by Microsoft?
But do we have a choice? Is there another place where our development could be done if our community determines Microsoft ought not to be our gatekeeper? Just raising some questions for your consideration, here. Here is an article that talks about what is happening:
https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2018/06/microsoft-acquires-github-for-7-5-billion.html
Thanks for listening.
