From at least two angles this is great news for Gitlab.
But it feels a bit like the Atlassian / Trello arrangement, which has had little impact on users.
From recent behaviour I'd expect Microsoft to have a very light touch here.
Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub
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#22I guess it's time to move to Gitlab.
It's good that there is such an alternative as GitLab, because there is a slight but still not unsignificant risk that MS will not do the right thing. I think they will though since they are power users of their own product. I'm hoping they know this space.
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#23If this is true, I delete my account immediately.
The last thing I want is my code to fall into the hands of MS.
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#24Tbh, I like this move. I hope they will merge Atom with VS Code and shutdown VSTS in favor for GitHub.
Atom and VS Code are both built on Electron. No need to kill Atom as it and VS Code are built for different purposes.
What different purposes? They're both text editors / lightweight IDEs focusing on plugin extensibility built on top of Electron. They're literally the same thing.
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#25There will probably be a decent amount of skepticism around this acquisition (with fair reason), but I'd like to think of this as an opportunity for Microsoft to demonstrate their respect and commitment to the developer community. I say this as someone who has been pleasantly surprised at how helpful BizSpark has been. Staying cautiously optimistic.
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#27I'm worried. Consider what happened to Skype. Consider what happened to LinkedIn. I worry something similar will happen to Github. And I love Github. At some point Microsoft told me I had to change my password for Skype. The "Reset your password" process failed 6 times in a row. I eventually had to create a new, Microsoft ID, to use Skype. I lost all of my old contacts and had to slowly recreate my address book. This…
what did they do with LinkedIn?? I havent noticed any change.
as for Skype, its completely ruined. I have it installed but I am scared to open it. Horrible GUI. Constant updates and generally just useless now.
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#28Why I'll never trust Microsoft ever again.
"postmaster@nsa.gov"
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#29I feel a great disturbance in the Force. As if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced. I fear something terrible has happened.
I feel the same. It's not the end of free software, but the end of free software as we knew it (or something, still trying to rationalize).
Someone explain the extreme feeling of uneasiness penetrating our brains.
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#30Step 1: Embrace.
I think they're on step 2 now.
They already embraced it by adding 1k repos. They're now going to extend it.
We'll soon have an msgit, which is git with extensions that only github will support.