The ghost of the skype acquisition would make me panic.
Why? I've been using Skype as my main video/text chat app since ~2002. It hasn't changed much after the acquisition.
Microsoft and GitHub have held acquisition talks
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Re: Microsoft and GitHub have held acquisition talks
#312Microsoft 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.
That code you mentioned has opt-out spyware. It's not in the spirit of free software at all. It's just part of embrace, extend, extinguish.
Microsoft has never been about free software.
They are however embracing open source in a manner that feels very sincere to me.
For the record, the so-called "spyware" is telemetry which exists only in the SDK for .NET Core and not the actual runtime that you would ship to the user with the software. It is anonymous data, completely open source so it really is only what they say it is, and the first time you use it it tells you how to disable it.
Re: Microsoft and GitHub have held acquisition talks
#313Seems 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.
Microsoft products are becoming worse on privacy:
1. LinkedIn's dark UI patterns are as bad as they've ever been. Bringing the same to GitHub or otherwise LinkedIn-ifying it seems like a very real risk.
2. Ramping up telemetry. Key loggers in Windows 10, opt-out telemetry in .NET Core, seems impossible to get VSCode to stop phoning home.
This is the stuff we very badly want to avoid.
Re: Microsoft and GitHub have held acquisition talks
#314NO! GOD! PLEASE NO! [GIF]
Re: Microsoft and GitHub have held acquisition talks
#315Really 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.
I don’t know, isn’t Microsoft the only software company left? I love Google, but they sell ads, their mission isn’t to make software.
Microsoft is more and more cloud and services, but they still have a developer mentality and they have done some good stuff with open source lately.
If someone is going to buy Github, Microsoft is probably the most friendly to developers. Unless Google or Facebook wants to go full altruist and buy for the credibility.
Re: Microsoft and GitHub have held acquisition talks
#316So, Which Microsoft login will I need to use for Microsoft GitHub?
My Microsoft Personal Account? Microsoft Work Account? Azure AD Account? Microsoft GitHub account?
p.s. All of the accounts have the same username, you just try different password and 2FA combinations til it works.
Re: Microsoft and GitHub have held acquisition talks
#317Really 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.
I don’t know, isn’t Microsoft the only software company left? I love Google, but they sell ads, their mission isn’t to make software. Microsoft is more and more cloud and services, but they still have a developer mentality and they have done some good stuff with open source lately. If someone is going to buy Github, Microsoft is probably the most friendly to developers. Unless Google or Facebook wants to go full altr…
Atlassian is very much a Software Company.
Re: Microsoft and GitHub have held acquisition talks
#318If github had to be sold, which tech company would be a better buyer than microsoft and able to afford a $2 billion acquisition?
Apple. I know it's not Apple's style but imagine if Apple started expanding outside of it's bubble like Microsoft has. If they really went all in it would be amazing.
Re: Microsoft and GitHub have held acquisition talks
#319Really 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.
It could be worse, Oracle or SalesForce could have been in talks...
Re: Microsoft and GitHub have held acquisition talks
#320Microsoft 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.
Visual Studio was the best Java editor by far. I wish Sun hadn’t blocked them as it took almost 5 years for Jetbrains to make a decent editor.
I loved through the 90s and think that Microsoft not requiring Windows shows that the danger from the 90s isn’t the same today.
Now it’s cloud vs OS lockin.