Time to spin up that Gitlab instance, I guess.
Microsoft and GitHub have held acquisition talks
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Re: Microsoft and GitHub have held acquisition talks
#122these talks are actually not new. the same rumor appeared back in 2016 https://techcrunch.com/2016/10/07/github-is-raising-a-second... imho, github feels a bit too slow innovating, which is kinda surprising since they are still "a startup"
I have the opposite opinion. I think every few months I see an interesting feature being added that are slowly making github a better platform. Just for the last few months we've seen a lot of improvements for Enterprise, improvement to gitHub pages, saved replies, team discussions, security alerts. I love the pace they have to release meaningful improvements.
Re: Microsoft and GitHub have held acquisition talks
#123I 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…
Powerpoint was a purchase. Hotmail was another one. Frontpage, Visio, Navision, Skype, Linkedin. They’ve had quite a few which were pretty successful.
Re: Microsoft and GitHub have held acquisition talks
#124I hope that a tragedy like MS acquiring GitHub does not happen, ever...
Re: Microsoft and GitHub have held acquisition talks
#125Re: Microsoft and GitHub have held acquisition talks
#126I wonder how projects like Electron are figuring into the interest that Microsoft has in GitHub. How would Microsoft move forward with such a project if they bought GitHub? Would its continue to be based on Chromium? Would future versions of Office follow VSCode and be build as Electron apps?
Re: Microsoft and GitHub have held acquisition talks
#127An 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.
> Today's MS is no different than yesterday's MS.
This is the silliest thing I've read on HN in awhile.
Re: Microsoft and GitHub have held acquisition talks
#128Hopefully 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.
Same here. I don't use Google products, other than search.
Re: Microsoft and GitHub have held acquisition talks
#129GitLab here we come...
More like "gah, we're going to have to self-host git, aren't we"?
Gogs/Gitea are my current goto for doing this. I expect one or both of them will get a lot of influx if github gets acquired.
Gitlab will also see upticks, but I suspect it's a lot more than most people need/want to maintain.
Re: Microsoft and GitHub have held acquisition talks
#130Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think that's the point. I'm personally worried Microsoft may have a very narrow view of what GitHub is. A lot of tech hosted there doesn't even run on Windows, or isn't even related to software. (legal, political, docs, guides, etc.)
what makes you think that? they killed off their own code hosting site in codeplex and moved everything to github. they are one of the largest if not the largest open source contributors in the world. and .net core is setting itself up to be a major player in cross-platform application development. it has a chance, if microsoft brings over uwp, wpf, and windows forms to .net core, to take over cross-platform gui deve…
You mention a lot of stuff that's in the same '.NET world' skellera mentioned, but the currently dominant GUI platform is the web, and neither is going to do take over. There's also still embedded software, hardware description, databases, emulators/simulators, competing virtual machines and GUI frameworks, a whole bunch of non-tech stuff, etc.
They do get a lot of this stuff, but I feel like whatever they want to do with Github is more geared towards average Joe .NET developer. Possibly making the platform less attractive for everything else through neglect.