I'm not moving away from GitHub anytime soon, they haven't done anything wrong and can actually handle decent traffic.
When trying to think like a Microsoft executive running Github imagine that you are lazy and money-grabbing and are narrowly self-interested in your own proprietary software. From that perspective, anything other than your own software is either good PR or something you can monetize somehow.
FOSS projects like the ones I had on Github add nothing to Microsoft's bottom line and so they will try to monetize or push out that type of thing.
@bob @dansup Honestly your view seems completely sensationalist to me.
Microsoft actually stand to lose *a lot* by messing with GitHub. They risk alienating a huge open source community, and they must already be acutely aware of the fact that it wouldn't take much at all to push people into leaving for competing platforms.
It seems unlikely we're going to see any such changes. They'd be signing their own death certificate if they did.
@neilalexander @bob @dansup you call it sensationalist, I call it being logical. Microsoft wants money (like all other businesses). They now have a platinum seat at the Linux foundation. They have lots of sway now. That's $500k a year. Chump change to M$ but it's enough to pay Linus Torvalds salary. Now they have to appease Microsoft who has a competing OS. And now they have github... Embrace, extend, extinguish...
"NEW MICROSOFT GITHUB OPEN SOURCE LICENCE TERMS:
By storing any information bits on Github you grant perpetual, non-revokable, non-transferrable rights to Microsoft Corp. including but not limited to the right to insert hyperlinking code into strings in your programs, should Microsoft consider it necessary, or should Microsoft be instructed to do so by law enforcement.
If you don't agree with these terms, just go away and install your own git server elsewhere, loser. #LOL"
@bob @dansup This sounds like an extrapolation of what YouTube did to the Blender Foundation, but GitHub might not do advertising since they already have a freemium model and developers know how to block ads anyway.
Large open-source projects like Linux actually serve to increase the popularity of GitHub and are essentially savings on marketing expenses.
@dansup you are right, don't panic ;-)