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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 scarface74 »

TAForObvReasons wrote: post #359
Alupis wrote: post #344

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

VSTS, Microsoft's hosted TFS solution, gives you unlimited private git repos for up to 5 users, 40 hours worth of hosted builds per month, complete project management, a private markdown based Wiki, and free orchestration of local build and deployment agents.

Re: Microsoft and GitHub have held acquisition talks

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Post by hobofan »

aaron-lebo wrote: post #363
hobofan wrote: post #219

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AFAIK the timeline of profitability is somewhat like this: - really profitable after introducing private repos - burning quite some money for growth after they took VC money - really profitable again after they changed their pricing to per-seat pricing

They lost 66 million as recently as 2016. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13188574

They introduced the new pricing in the middle of 2016[0].

[0]: https://blog.github.com/2016-05-11-introducing-unlimited-pri...

Re: Microsoft and GitHub have held acquisition talks

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Post by cm2187 »

bbatha wrote: post #407
philliphaydon wrote: post #396

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Buying Nokia wasn’t the issue. Microsoft’s handling of Nokia was the issue. Microsoft is not good at making a physical product and releasing it to the world like Apple and Samsung. The fact many countries had to wait > 12 months to get the latest phone was retarded. Windows phone was awesome, but Microsoft screwed themselves by not doing minimum what it’s competitors were doing.

Huh? Microsoft has several very successful hardware product lines: peripherals (the Microsoft ergo keyboard is the gold standard in many circles), Xbox, the surface line. Maybe they can’t generate Apple hype but they do know how to make consumer hardware.

I don’t think surface qualifies as good consumer hardware. It has been pleagued with driver problems and weird behaviour. But agree on periphericals and Xbox.

Re: Microsoft and GitHub have held acquisition talks

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Post by bad_user »

giancarlostoro wrote: post #185
AgentK20 wrote: post #6

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.

To be fair, they did screw Skype.

Re: Microsoft and GitHub have held acquisition talks

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Post by bad_user »

amag wrote: post #142
AnIdiotOnTheNet wrote: post #85

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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.

I lived through the nineties as well, that doesn't mean I think everything that was amazing back then still is amazing today nor that everything that sucked back then still sucks today... I think the Microsoft of today is very different from the Microsoft of the nineties. Personally I'm not so much worried about Microsoft going back to Microsoft'95 but more about the fact that they, like most (all?) other big tech co…

How is Microsoft different exactly?

Do they not engage in patents racketeering?

Do they not spy on users of Windows 10?

> like most (all?) other big tech companies

"The other children are doing it" and then you're mother would say "that doesn't make it right". It's a child's defense no doubt.

But anyway, it's also factually not true.

Re: Microsoft and GitHub have held acquisition talks

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Post by ori_b »

giancarlostoro wrote: post #185
AgentK20 wrote: post #6

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.

They didn't need to screw up linkedin -- they bought it that way.

Re: Microsoft and GitHub have held acquisition talks

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Post by cup-of-tea »

tomnipotent wrote: post #322
cup-of-tea wrote: post #241

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The progress they've made? Baking in more spyware into Windows and other products than ever before? Taking more control away from computer users than ever before? What planet are you people on?

> Baking in more spyware into Windows Lost your argument as soon as you said "spyware". It's like calling everyone you disagree with a "terrorist". > Taking more control away from computer users than ever before? Like what?

You can proliferate the doublespeak if you want but I'll call it what it is.

Like rebooting computers whenever they feel like it. Reenabling previously disabled options etc. Your head is in the sand but you don't have to live this way.

Re: Microsoft and GitHub have held acquisition talks

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Post by yani »

AgentK20 wrote: post #6

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.

GitHub clearly needs change of management. I havent seen much inmovation from them compared to GitLab. Microsoft is very strong on innovation since change of management.

Re: Microsoft and GitHub have held acquisition talks

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Post by yani »

e40 wrote: post #343
AgentK20 wrote: post #6

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.

Yeah, I agree. I would immediately delete my github account if this happened. I don't buy that MS has seen the light and is a different company now. In the last 2 weeks, 3 people have told me their Windows 10 install updated itself and was completely borked. At least one of these people are going out and buying a new Windows machine as a result (thus giving MS a little more revenue). It absolutely disgusts me.

You must have very weird friends. My family and I havent had any issues since Vista.
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