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Microsoft and GitHub have held acquisition talks

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Re: Microsoft and GitHub have held acquisition talks

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Post by DaveMebs »

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 was developed as an OSS clone of BitKeeper (which was originally provided freely to Linux kernel developers under the agreement that they not develop a clone).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BitKeeper

Re: Microsoft and GitHub have held acquisition talks

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Post by urda »

falcon620 wrote: post #29

Hopefully it's just a negotiation tactic to get Google to buy them for more than their first offer.

Google buying GitHub over Microsoft would actually be arguably worse for GitHub.

If Google actually bought GitHub, I would be thinking twice about using it.

Re: Microsoft and GitHub have held acquisition talks

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Post by ergomarky »

skellera wrote: post #14

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.

It's actually really interesting. Seems like internally, MSFT has kind of been let loose and no longer has to adhere to the more strict style Ballmer was a fan of. We've seen this with them hiring OSS talent (Miguel de Icaza, who was a pretty big advocate of trying to make MSFT less proprietary and locked down).

Externally though, the image looks completely different to those who don't really care for what's happening at MSFT - they just seem like an outdated Apple. That's slowly starting to change, I think the Verge recently put out a piece claiming they've switched positions. However, a lot of major consumer problems (Windows Update, Skype) have plagued the company tremendously. No amount of loving Typescript or VSC is going to change that.

Re: Microsoft and GitHub have held acquisition talks

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Post by AnIdiotOnTheNet »

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 lived through the 90s, so I disagree. Anyone who feels perfectly comfortable with Microsoft's embracing of things they like is ignoring history.

Maybe it's different this time, maybe it isn't.

Re: Microsoft and GitHub have held acquisition talks

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Post by sametmax »

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.

As much as I love VSCode, you live in a buble. A communication app affects way more people than a programming language or a text editor. Even my mother uses the former, while only a fraction of all the programmers I met in my life use the laters.

And MS did messed up on other major products or companies

- Rare video games. They did freaking golden eyes and conkers bad day and they manage to kill it.

- they messed up Wn10, which is still not as good as Win7 after all those years but spies more on you and forces update at the worse moment on you

- the latest outlook is barely usable. Sometime mails can't be sent. Sometime it freezes or crashes. It's very slow, the search sucks and I never find the buttons I'm looking for.

- they killed Nokia and the windows phone despite all the investments the community did in it. And it was considered a good product.

- they are milking minecraft like disney is milking SW, so that all the creative community has moved to private servers.

I mean, we are talking about a company that had a monopoly on the media player and the web browser on the most used OS in the world. The player and browser, the most used software ever by the non tech saavy users.

And to this day, none of their versions is remotely as good as the competition.

Re: Microsoft and GitHub have held acquisition talks

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Post by sametmax »

pixelmonkey wrote: post #43

Github shouldn't sell. It has an opportunity to be a once-in-a-generation tech company. I can't believe they even held the talks.

Maybe the founder are fed up with running it. I can understand your want out, and it's very hard to find people to replace you, and much easier to sell it to a big entity that is already used to do something like that.

Re: Microsoft and GitHub have held acquisition talks

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Post by ManFromUranus »

AnIdiotOnTheNet wrote: post #85
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 lived through the 90s, so I disagree. Anyone who feels perfectly comfortable with Microsoft's embracing of things they like is ignoring history. Maybe it's different this time, maybe it isn't.

Sort of like the ship of Theseus, if all the people working at and running microsoft are different, is it even the same company?
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