Microsoft and GitHub have held acquisition talks • Hacker News Board

Re: Microsoft and GitHub have held acquisition talks

#71

Post by zamalek » Fri, Jun 01, 2018, 7:49 PM UTC

pasbesoin wrote: post #22

E3 -- Embrace, Extend, Extinguish. Stems from at least the 1990's. The MS behavior as opposed to the term can be argued to pre-date that decade. I'll just remind people who may think I'm being old, crotchety, and living in the past, that this has been a repeated pattern of theirs that has resurfaced so often and reliably as to become considered by many to be a core component of MS culture. Repeated including in the f…

E3 is no longer relevant under Nadella, arguably even before Balmer stepped down.

Re: Microsoft and GitHub have held acquisition talks

#72

Post by TimTheTinker » Fri, Jun 01, 2018, 7:49 PM UTC

I haven't bashed Microsoft for a long time, and I won't any time soon. However, this development has me worried.

There's a big difference between engaging the developer community with great products and purchasing important services that the developer community relies on.

Microsoft has succeeded many times with products and services they've built themselves, and with products they've purchased, but how often have they succeeded with services they've purchased?

Re: Microsoft and GitHub have held acquisition talks

#73

Post by TooBrokeToBeg » Fri, Jun 01, 2018, 7:50 PM UTC

An acquisition would mean the inevitable split of support between the MS toolchain and the OS toolchain, which would eventually be left to die. Today's MS is no different than yesterday's MS.

Re: Microsoft and GitHub have held acquisition talks

#74

Post by riffic » Fri, Jun 01, 2018, 7:52 PM UTC

jordache wrote: post #50

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.

such a presumptuous statement. Why proclaim you won't use a MSFT owned github, even as a hypothetical?

Microsoft's own history answers this question.

Re: Microsoft and GitHub have held acquisition talks

#75

Post by TimTheTinker » Fri, Jun 01, 2018, 7:52 PM UTC

moeadham wrote: post #68

londondev45 wrote: post #51

Microsoft has embraced Github with it's recent .Net core development, they are one of the largest contributors with some incredible cross platform dev tooling. C# is a pleasure and visual studio code is an excellent, extensible coding tool. Go forth Microsoft, the standard bashing in these communities is unjust.

I wonder what Linus Tovalds is thinking right now. If I remember correctly, he wrote Git because Perforce was forcing him to use Microsoft software licences. https://github.com/git/git/commit/e83c5163316f89bfbde7d9ab23...

Git != GitHub

Re: Microsoft and GitHub have held acquisition talks

#76

Post by falcon620 » Fri, Jun 01, 2018, 7:53 PM UTC

parvenu74 wrote: post #53

tootie wrote: post #27

People are being overly pessimistic. This would be a potentially great deal. GitHub is very successful at what they do and I don't think MS would change that. More likely they would use GH as lead-in to selling cloud services the same way Google uses GitLab.

If you've watched the last couple Build Conferences (Microsoft's annual developer conference) they frequently demonstrate their CI/CD pipeline based on Github checkins, not VSTS checkins (just takes a webhook invocation and all the source-hosting sites support sending those out on check-in or merge).

A zillion companies use Github. This does not qualify them to operate Github.

Re: Microsoft and GitHub have held acquisition talks

#77

Post by antonkm » Fri, Jun 01, 2018, 7:53 PM UTC

drenvuk wrote: post #34

The one thing that I like about Github is that everything is public by default and you have to pay to keep your code private. I feel like a positive consequence of that business choice was the opening up of way more software. Gitlab, while being very awesome doesn't have that same rule and neither does Bitbucket. It's my assumption that this is the biggest reason there's so much open source code flowing right now. It…

Not having to pay for private is the reason we chose Bitbucket back in the days.

Re: Microsoft and GitHub have held acquisition talks

#78

Post by Negative1 » Fri, Jun 01, 2018, 7:54 PM UTC

Trying to understand the cloud strategy here; does Github run on Azure, GCP or AWS?

Re: Microsoft and GitHub have held acquisition talks

#79

Post by falcon620 » Fri, Jun 01, 2018, 7:55 PM UTC

PaulHoule wrote: post #48

falcon620 wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I have respect for Microsoft. A lot of people do not, however, [...] And for perfectly rational reasons, I would add.

Intel has followed Apple into the rabbit hole of style over substance. I know so many people who want to do neural networks and they want to buy a mac and sorry you can't do that because Apple picked the wrong horse in the GPU race and it might be a few more years before they refresh their models. Back in 1984 Apple released the first microcomputer that came without a software development kit. Since then it has all b…

...wow.

Ok, that's not relevant to anything else written in this thread.

Re: Microsoft and GitHub have held acquisition talks

#80

Post by sigfubar » Fri, Jun 01, 2018, 7:56 PM UTC

This is our chance to gain a GitHub+LinkedIn integration. Just imagine... your LinkedIn profile and endorsements will auto-populate based on commit & PR activity.