Microsoft buys GitHub

Tas_mania · **Joined:** Nov 04, 2015 **Posts:** 1467

https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2018/06/04/microsoft-github-empowering-developers/

Microsoft has gone 180 degrees on open source software once describing linux as a 'cancer'.
Now they are 'all in' on open source but what about the future? Software companies get taken over or even go bankrupt.

Gimp is on GitHub but because of it's design, repositories are distributed so owning it does not seem to be an advantage.
https://github.com/GNOME/gimp

ofnuts · **Joined:** Oct 25, 2010 **Posts:** 4812

No, Gimp isn't on GitHub. Gimp is on a Gnome-owned GitLab. The first line at the top of the page you link to says:
"GIMP (this is a mirror!". And there was a mirror on Github because the previous source code server for Gimp had no feature like the ones you find in Github/Gitlab, but the mirror in Github make much less sense now.

lylejk · **Joined:** Sep 24, 2010 **Posts:** 12838

What can possibly go wrong (sarcasm)?

Tas_mania · **Joined:** Nov 04, 2015 **Posts:** 1467

Quote:

What can possibly go wrong (sarcasm)?

The GitHub BSOD

ofnuts. I get your point. Gimp is a bit more on GitLab than on GitHub....

ofnuts · **Joined:** Oct 25, 2010 **Posts:** 4812

Tas_mania wrote:

Quote:

What can possibly go wrong (sarcasm)?

The GitHub BSOD

ofnuts. I get your point. Gimp is a bit more on GitLab than on GitHub....

Gimp is a lot more on GitLab. GitHub could be nuked at any time and it wouldn't change anything for Gimp devs.