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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 b34r »

SanDimasFootbal wrote: post #317
prepend wrote: post #315

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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.

I wouldn’t exactly call them the gold standard of software. JIRA is a holy mess and well... many of us are still stuck with HipChat

Re: Microsoft and GitHub have held acquisition talks

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Post by ianwalter »

discordance wrote: post #328
ianwalter wrote: post #318

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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.

I would prefer if Apple would continue to focus on making my phone better. They really slipped up with their QA on recent iOS releases.

Yea but I don't think it's continued focus that will help here. Apple has continued it's modus operandi and quality has decreased like you mentioned. Granted, acquiring GitHub is most likely not the right fix, but I think something about Apple's particular way of operating is holding it back.

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Post by Rjevski »

cwyers wrote: post #160

HOT TAKE: The things that drove Skype to change from the Golden Age Of Skype were largely market-driven things like the rise of the smartphone that killed pretty much every other popular communications platform at the time (AIM is dead now, too) and there is no evidence that an independent Skype would have weathered the market shift any better than a Microsoft-owned Skype did.

Disagreed.

Skype worked perfectly for me on smartphone, and the few quirks could've been patched without screwing it up completely.

I feel like Skype was ahead of its time, it was essentially a cross-platform iMessage & FaceTime that was mainstream.

Had Microsoft not fucked it up we'd still be happily using it.

Re: Microsoft and GitHub have held acquisition talks

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Post by colemickens »

parvenu74 wrote: post #93
falcon620 wrote: post #76

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A zillion companies use Github. This does not qualify them to operate Github.

Hasn't GitHub been running on Microsoft Azure for a few years now?

What does GitHub's choice of cloud have to do with Microsoft's aptitude to take over an existing, huge, critical piece of the open source world? From a business perspective, or an operational one?

Re: Microsoft and GitHub have held acquisition talks

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Post by Rjevski »

falcon620 wrote: post #40
akerro wrote: post #36

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Or you know... just use gitlab.com...

I don't trust them to be compent at operating a large scale service after their insane meltdown february last year. https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/02/01/gitlab_data_loss/

Unrelated to that incident, but I feel their web UI to be extremely slow lately. Working with PRs (or "merge requests" as GitLab calls them) and CI pipeline is a pain, you're looking at 1 second response times.

Re: Microsoft and GitHub have held acquisition talks

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Post by TAForObvReasons »

Alupis wrote: post #344
sker wrote: post #212

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Plus I'm sure under Microsoft they will have some sort of free private repos like GitLab, Bitbucket and Visual Studio Team Services already do. Lack of free private repos is the main (only) reason why I don't use GitHub.

When did you last look at GitHub? They've had free private repos for well over a year (maybe longer). I have ~50 private on my account... Embarrassingly bad half-completed side projects mostly.

GitHub private repos are still $7/month, but available for free as part of the education discount

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Post by ocdtrekkie »

Rjevski wrote: post #350
ocdtrekkie wrote: post #335

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I think people forget how bad Skype was in a lot of ways though. The big reason they shifted to the cloud model, for instance, was how unreliable message delivery was on phones with peer-to-peer. I remember when, in order to send images, you and the other person had to be online at the same time. They made some missteps, sure, but Skype was already a very dated solution.

I am not sure how "unreliable" the peer to peer model was. From what I remember it's always been perfect for me. Media uploads could have been solved by a server-based "media" service, while keeping the reliable & battle-tested P2P architecture. As of currently, the server-based architecture is an absolute disaster, way worse than P2P.

I regularly had whole chatrooms that wouldn't update for days. I had no way of knowing if a message I sent would really like... ever... get delivered.

I've been a pretty big Skype user in the past, and still use it a bit now, and it is actually so much more reliable now that Microsoft runs it.

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