You don't want to know what shade of green I've turned.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/artic...ng-site-github

Oh well, life is never dull in the computing world. Most people are pragmatists though - they'll formulate a plan B but stick with GitHub to see if the service becomes negatively impacted by the acquisition.

Looks like it's confirmed.

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

Microsoft’s GitHub acquisition celebrated by the Linux Foundation

https://www.theverge.com/2018/6/8/17...nux-foundation

I read this ("The hostility between Microsoft and Linux is well and truly over") whilst having my morning coffee - I need a new keyboard.

If this is the case then, Linux has entered the embrace/assimilated phase of Microsoft's strategy. The tea leaves predicted this when they became a major donor and contributor to the Linux Foundation/Kernel.

To borrow a phrase from a great PC game (Crusader): There are dark days ahead me Lord.

What's next MS putting Windows as FOSS on the hub?

Prepare for a painful refresher in the all important difference between FREE Software and "Open Source"ⓒ™.

Sadly the fate of Linux is in the hands of an uneasy consortium of google, Microsoft, IBM, Oracle, HP, Intel and others (in no particular order).

For many users this current situation is not only a "nothing to worry about" scenario, it is in fact desirable.

The recent CoC - a brain fart of the useful idiots in the feminist/PC faction - is also "nothing to worry about".

And of course, if you disagree with these mouthpieces you obviously need measuring up for new aluminium foil headgear.

I prefer the good old days when greasy hippies from US universities and hobbyists wrote software and put together their own distributions and defined the licences which made FOSS what it is today. The new era of "open source" where everything has to be corporate owned, controlled and influenced and where Red Hat users and sysadmins are apologists for this and arrogantly believe it was all written for them in order to earn a living from support contracts, bores me to tears. I really don't care about your vocation (or whether or not Red-Hat-systemd-gnome-OS is best thing since sliced bread [for you]).

I would honestly rather just run MS Windows than be be part of that horrible farce.

Please feel free to do so.

You've quoted an entire post, added your own emphasis and taken that statement out of context.

I highlighted the sentence to show that it was the one that my comment referred to. A time-honoured technique on forums.

What I am saying is that if you are so peeved with the state of Linux at the moment that you feel you want to go back to Microsoft then there is *nothing* stopping you. Go ahead. The rest of us will carry on using it without running around loudly exclaiming that the sky is falling on our heads.

You've taken that statement out of context.
I'm fully aware of that.
The "rest of you" (argumentum ad populum) can use whatever you like, I have not suggested that anyone stop using anything...

Man, what are you on about? I included the whole post so that anyone else could read the entire thing, and highlighted the part I was replying to. There is no "out of context" - the context was there for everyone to see. If you're going to write something then you shouldn't throw up your hands in horror when someone else quotes what you've written.