I'm happy that Microsoft has gotten so on board with git recently and made contributions to the project, but this kind of consolidation still makes me nervous, for multiple reasons.
What contributions has MS made to git?
Microsoft and GitHub have held acquisition talks
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Re: Microsoft and GitHub have held acquisition talks
#102Microsoft 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.
There is enough just criticism of Microsoft's bad practices that remain damaging to this day.
So no, MS is clearly a bad steward for GitHub.
Re: Microsoft and GitHub have held acquisition talks
#103This is negative value. The only reason the big companies host their source code on GitHub is because it's independent. They will stop doing that tomorrow if GitHub is acquired and it will lose all its value.
Re: Microsoft and GitHub have held acquisition talks
#104Could be worse. It could be Oracle.
Or IBM.
Re: Microsoft and GitHub have held acquisition talks
#105This is negative value. The only reason the big companies host their source code on GitHub is because it's independent. They will stop doing that tomorrow if GitHub is acquired and it will lose all its value.
Positive for Atlassian I guess.
Re: Microsoft and GitHub have held acquisition talks
#106Microsoft 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.
Microsoft has been changing a lot. Embracing linux in their cloud offering, offering unix as a subsystem on Windows, open sourcing their work. Anyone who likens the current MSFT to anything resembling what it was in the 90s hasn't been paying attention to the current leadership.
Re: Microsoft and GitHub have held acquisition talks
#107I'm happy that Microsoft has gotten so on board with git recently and made contributions to the project, but this kind of consolidation still makes me nervous, for multiple reasons.
What contributions has MS made to git?
They made a post listing some of their performance improvements last year: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/devops/2018/01/11/microsoft...
Re: Microsoft and GitHub have held acquisition talks
#108GitLab must be psyched for the potential influx of defectors.
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Re: Microsoft and GitHub have held acquisition talks
#109I 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 the…
FrontPage was purchased and pretty successful back in the day.
Re: Microsoft and GitHub have held acquisition talks
#110Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Microsoft has been changing a lot. Embracing linux in their cloud offering, offering unix as a subsystem on Windows, open sourcing their work. Anyone who likens the current MSFT to anything resembling what it was in the 90s hasn't been paying attention to the current leadership.
That's not to say they couldn't revert to their embrace, extend, and extinguish tactics of the 90s, even under future leadership.
I feel that no big corporation should own GitHub, even if their investors feel differently.