What's stopping Microsoft from spying on emails of millions of private organizations and governments that already use and trust hosted Office 365 Exchange or other SaaS services?
How is this different than trusting Amazon to host your data or code in the AWS Cloud?
Simply put, it would be devastating to their business if there was even a whiff of a breach of privacy - all you have to do is look at Facebook right now.
Even companies like Apple and Facebook, which would in any other circumstance only conduct business with Microsoft under very explicit terms, host their open-source software on GitHub.
OSS projects have associated licenses, that have very explicit terms.
Take the tinfoil hat off - Microsoft is not out to get you or your code.
What's stopping Microsoft from spying on emails of millions of private organizations and governments that already use and trust hosted Office 365 Exchange or other SaaS services?
How is this different than trusting Amazon to host your data or code in the AWS Cloud?
Simply put, it would be devastating to their business if there was even a whiff of a breach of privacy - all you have to do is look at Facebook right now.
Even companies like Apple and Facebook, which would in any other circumstance only conduct business with Microsoft under very explicit terms, host their open-source software on GitHub.
OSS projects have associated licenses, that have very explicit terms.
Take the tinfoil hat off - Microsoft is not out to get you or your code.
The acquisition will come with changes to Github. I think this is what people are mostly worried about.