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1. Chris Bowdon 🇬🇧🇪🇺 (cbowdon)'s status on Monday, 04-Jun-2018 07:24:08 UTC Chris Bowdon 🇬🇧🇪🇺

   Do we need more takes on the #Microsoft #GitHub acquisition? Well...

   The average FOSS dev doesn’t have a lot new to worry about here, IMO. GitHub wasn’t ever a not-for-profit, people were already worried about over-centralisation.

   However GCE, IBM, Oracle and other small cloud providers should be very worried. The entire “MS ❤️ OSS” strategy has been about driving Azure adoption. Every foothold they gain in the ecosystem will be used to steer towards that. Bad news for cloud competition.

   • Chris Bowdon 🇬🇧🇪🇺 (cbowdon)'s status on Monday, 04-Jun-2018 07:25:46 UTC Chris Bowdon 🇬🇧🇪🇺

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     Naturally less competition is worse for consumers too, I should add.