> It's as if it's some sort of daily prayer.

That's probably the whole point of it. Ask yourself daily: WWMD? "What Would Musk Do?"

impossible to say, since he hasn't gotten back to a single tweet

How would I add another repository to the microsoft store in order to have nightly builds of a specific app or third party apps available?

Is there an apt-like command line interface for the microsoft store?

This is technically possible (kinda how enterprise apps are deployed) but is not exposed to consumers fwik.

Or about 3 horses.

Except on film, where we usually just tape a bunch of cats together.

0.000178 Eiffel Towers.

It's all good now, though. Nothing to worry about.

The name is burnt. They still are a company with business interests. While their interests might align today with the open source community this doesn't have to be so tomorrow and there is no resistance internally to burn these bridges they are building today.

Or you can move immediately like many others. What would you gain by staying until it's too late?

They have reached the end goal of the big buyout. What more could they possibly want?

Migrating from GitHub to GitLab

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYOXuOg9tQI

this adresses some of the issues.

It doesn't solve the number one issue: External references to your project will all still point to github.com since that's where the project homepage (aka README.md) is.

If GitHub does get sold to MS and I end up moving to GitLab, I'll probably push one last commit to the GitHub repo adding a header saying the project has moved, with a link to the GitLab repo. It's not perfect, but it wouldn't be too bad.

Until MSFT/GitHub does what Sourceforge.net did - taking over project sites from projects which moved away and adding malware (adware/spyware) into those ;)

(I believe with all critique on Microsoft they aren't as bad, but want to exemplarize the risk)

It might just be cleaner to close the github repo and when other projects find a 404 where it used to be, they'll have to use super detective skills (i.e. Google it) to find the project's new home. And if they can't find it that way, then nothing of value was lost. (Yes, yes, I know it's more nuanced than that, but if you wanted permanence, you'd be hosting on your own domain, right?)

This would be a great way for them to accelerate migration away from Github.

I expect Google could be convinced to accept certain files or metadata in a README as equivalent to a 301 permanent redirect, meaning searches will remain effective. That would account for a lot, especially if Chrome begins to honour it.

Actually, the #1 issue is that everyone can easily file an issue/contribute in other ways at Github without having to create another account to do so.

You can sign in with your Github account to gitlab.com.

I wonder how Microsoft can manage to commercialize all the projects on GitHub. Maybe by providing an universal installer that works through the Windows Store. Maybe by adding a few mandatory patches to each project that improve compatibility. Maybe by making a much improved version of Git with a proper GUI interface. The possibilities are endless!