Re: Microsoft buys GitHub, is this a threat to open-source
Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@gmail.com>
From: Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@gmail.com>
To: Michael Nolan <htfoot@gmail.com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, "pgsql-general@postgresql.org" <pgsql-general@postgresql.org>
Date: 2018-06-04T18:44:37Z
Lists: pgsql-general
2018-06-04 20:34 GMT+02:00 Michael Nolan <htfoot@gmail.com>: > > > On Mon, Jun 4, 2018 at 12:15 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: > >> Michael Nolan <htfoot@gmail.com> writes: >> > Microsoft has bought GitHub for $7.5 billion, is this a threat to the >> open >> > source community? >> >> A fair question, but one that seems entirely off-topic for the Postgres >> lists, since we don't depend on GitHub. (And that's a thing for which >> I'm very glad today.) >> >> regards, tom lane >> > > Core postgres is OK, but I think there are a number of postgres-related > projects that might be on places like GitHub. > I have few projects there - Orafce, plpgsql_check, and pspg. I hope so these projects are well protected by BSD licence - and distributed redundant nature of git. I hope so there is not reason for panic this moment. I have not a big data in non git sources - issues, and others. But I understand so there are projects that are (can be) in conflicts of interests with Microsoft, and it can be problem. Regards Pavel -- > Mike Nolan > >