Microsoft and GitHub have held acquisition talks • Hacker News Board

Re: Microsoft and GitHub have held acquisition talks

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Post by toomuchtodo » Fri, Jun 01, 2018, 7:02 PM UTC

ihsw2 wrote: post #9

PaulHoule wrote: post #2

Oh shit. I run Windows. I have respect for Microsoft. A lot of people do not, however, and the sense that Microsoft is ritually unclean will drive many of them away from github. It's the best thing that's happened to BitBucket and Altassian ever. If I have a choice between MS tools and Altassian tools I will usually take MS. (Visual Source Safe really did suck, but Visual Studio is not that bad...) Also, Microsoft ac…

Perhaps they perceive that AWS and GCP seek to own more of the work infrastructure and they're trying to get out ahead of this. * email/domain integration * code hosting * issue tracking/kanban-based project planning * CI/CD processes Developer tooling is evolving and there's a land-grab happening, from small workshops all the way up to global-scale enterprises.

Its a smart way to increase Azure uptake. Acquire the tools needed as a dev, make your platform a first class citizen and everyone else runner up.

Re: Microsoft and GitHub have held acquisition talks

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Post by tootie » Fri, Jun 01, 2018, 7:02 PM UTC

PaulHoule wrote: post #2

Oh shit. I run Windows. I have respect for Microsoft. A lot of people do not, however, and the sense that Microsoft is ritually unclean will drive many of them away from github. It's the best thing that's happened to BitBucket and Altassian ever. If I have a choice between MS tools and Altassian tools I will usually take MS. (Visual Source Safe really did suck, but Visual Studio is not that bad...) Also, Microsoft ac…

Source Safe is ancient. TFS is their new jam and it's pretty solid. Especially if you're in the Visual Studio and Azure world.

Re: Microsoft and GitHub have held acquisition talks

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Post by kravlin » Fri, Jun 01, 2018, 7:03 PM UTC

PaulHoule wrote: post #2

Oh shit. I run Windows. I have respect for Microsoft. A lot of people do not, however, and the sense that Microsoft is ritually unclean will drive many of them away from github. It's the best thing that's happened to BitBucket and Altassian ever. If I have a choice between MS tools and Altassian tools I will usually take MS. (Visual Source Safe really did suck, but Visual Studio is not that bad...) Also, Microsoft ac…

I'll be really honest. This would lead me to start looking at alternatives for all of my projects very quickly.

After years of watching Microsoft gobble up and assimilate companies, I'd rather jump ship before they start the extinguish portion of the cycle. Mojang is starting to leave the extend part with updates that are pushed out early for the "bedrock" version of minecraft.

Re: Microsoft and GitHub have held acquisition talks

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Post by skellera » Fri, Jun 01, 2018, 7:03 PM UTC

Seems like the view here is pretty negative. I feel like most people here haven't worked with Microsoft dev products recently. They're getting better. I guess the crowd here isn't typically in the .NET world.

Re: Microsoft and GitHub have held acquisition talks

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Post by [deleted] » Fri, Jun 01, 2018, 7:09 PM UTC

AgentK20 wrote: post #6

Really hope these talks fall through and nothing comes of it. Too many bad experiences with Microsoft buying something out, mismanaging it, and it goes down the drain. As much as I love GitHub, I won't be using a Microsoft-owned GitHub for any of my company's work.

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Re: Microsoft and GitHub have held acquisition talks

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Post by iambateman » Fri, Jun 01, 2018, 7:09 PM UTC

For the comparisons of this acquisition to Skype, yes Microsoft bungled the Skype acquisition.

But they have been killing it with Typescript and Visual Studio. I feel like that at such a large company, the Typescript recent history matters more than the Skype history. Two very different areas with different people in charge, etc.

Re: Microsoft and GitHub have held acquisition talks

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Post by falcon620 » Fri, Jun 01, 2018, 7:11 PM UTC

Well, that's a scary thought.

Re: Microsoft and GitHub have held acquisition talks

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Post by [deleted] » Fri, Jun 01, 2018, 7:11 PM UTC

AgentK20 wrote: post #6

Really hope these talks fall through and nothing comes of it. Too many bad experiences with Microsoft buying something out, mismanaging it, and it goes down the drain. As much as I love GitHub, I won't be using a Microsoft-owned GitHub for any of my company's work.

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Re: Microsoft and GitHub have held acquisition talks

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Post by deedubaya » Fri, Jun 01, 2018, 7:12 PM UTC

iambateman wrote: post #16

For the comparisons of this acquisition to Skype, yes Microsoft bungled the Skype acquisition. But they have been killing it with Typescript and Visual Studio. I feel like that at such a large company, the Typescript recent history matters more than the Skype history. Two very different areas with different people in charge, etc.

MS has always been pretty good at making products.

MS has always been pretty bad at providing services.

Re: Microsoft and GitHub have held acquisition talks

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Post by parvenu74 » Fri, Jun 01, 2018, 7:12 PM UTC

thosakwe wrote: post #5

Something makes me feel like Microsoft acquiring Github will do away with Github's current, open nature. If the extreme advertising in Windows 10 is any sign...

> will do away with GitHub's current, open nature.

Apparently the Gnome folks concluded that GitHub was already too closed to even consider them in the competition for the question "Where will the Gnome project live in the future?"

GitLab won that competition, btw, and icrosoft wasn't even part of that calculus.