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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.
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.
To be fair they haven't screwed up LinkedIn. I think they will let GitHub grow with their resources.
I think it's significantly worse albeit probably short of totally "screwed up". Just marginally worse in a lot of small ways that add up to a less useful, less efficient experience for me.
If github had to be sold, which tech company would be a better buyer than microsoft and able to afford a $2 billion acquisition?
I do believe Amazon would interfere less with what users like about GitHub than Microsoft would.
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Let's also not forget this only runs on Windows.
They've stated that they want to bring this to other platforms as well. https://github.com/Microsoft/GVFS/issues/4
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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.
If you don't trust Startpage you can try DuckDuckGo with a !g modifier, it will search Google (mostly) anonymously for you.
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Let's also not forget this only runs on Windows.
They've stated that they want to bring this to other platforms as well. https://github.com/Microsoft/GVFS/issues/4
https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/devops/2018/03/15/gvfs-for-...
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.
The fact it's getting better is obviously a positive thing, but will it stay that way in the future? no one knows.
I like the fact Github is independent of all the big players. I really, really, really hope it stays a neutral ground.
Also, if acquired by MS, I'm not that afraid for github itself. However, what is at risk in my opinion is all the integrations around github. There is a rich and striving ecosystem surrounding github. Tools like appveyor, travis-ci, coverall, readthedocs, codacy are really useful, ease a lot development and are infinitely easier to setup/maintain than a Jenkins box plus a few slaves. What would happen to this ecosystem remains to be seen.
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.
To be fair they haven't screwed up LinkedIn. I think they will let GitHub grow with their resources.
People loved Skype so much, it was really a feat to make people hate it.
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.
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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.
i'm also a big fan of the atom editor