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> "[..] researchers used the platform to share and cross-check daily patient counts." No concerns about private datasets in the open on Github ? I get they like the workflow but they traded ethics for convenience there. Medical ethics.
The cool thing about git is it doesn’t matter what happens to the platform. You can take your repo and push it somewhere else if you don’t like how Microsoft runs the show. Given how Microsoft took Github’s idea with Atom and ran with it to make VSCode, I wouldn’t be surprised if Github improves under Microsoft’s rule.
That was already the case before Microsoft purchased GitHub. So why did they start to use it in the first place, if they had this concern?
> "[..] researchers used the platform to share and cross-check daily patient counts." No concerns about private datasets in the open on Github ? I get they like the workflow but they traded ethics for convenience there. Medical ethics.
If it's anonymized data, I see no problem. All scientific datasets should be in the open.
> "[..] researchers used the platform to share and cross-check daily patient counts." No concerns about private datasets in the open on Github ? I get they like the workflow but they traded ethics for convenience there. Medical ethics.
If it's anonymized data, I see no problem. All scientific datasets should be in the open.
"Open Science is not compatible with one corporation owning the platform used to collaborate on code" That was already the case before Microsoft purchased GitHub. So why did they start to use it in the first place, if they had this concern?
"During the 2014–16 Ebola outbreak in West Africa, for example, researchers used the platform to share and cross-check daily patient counts." Pretty sure this is referring to the lab I used to work in. Honestly, I'm not particularly worried about the buyout - pretty sure the chances of them just scrapping the whole service are slim, and "GitHub disappears" seems equally as likely burning through VC cash as it does ow…
the chances of them just scrapping the whole service are slim, and "GitHub disappears" seems equally as likely burning through VC cash as it does owned by Microsoft. Right, the people who should really be worried are VSTS users. And GitLab users funnily enough. They are VC backed and will have to exit too, and everyone’s looking at them now. The least worst thing that could happen is bought by Atlassian and folded in…