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Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub

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Re: Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub

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Post by darawk »

gressquel wrote: post #27
lkrubner wrote: post #17

I'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.

> what did they do with LinkedIn?? I havent noticed any change.

I think that's his point. He's saying that LinkedIn has the opportunity to do lots of interesting things, and appears to be squandering it.

Re: Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub

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Post by CM30 »

Oh god, I hope not. Anytime a big company acquires almost anything, the quality level drops off a cliff. Microsoft with Skype is the obvious example, but so is anything bought by Google (like YouTube).

Add to this the bad experience we had with Sourceforge, and I definitely worry it could be all over for GitHub if this is true.

Re: Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub

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Post by LeanderK »

I am worried that a company as important to the open-source community as github is now owned by one of the major players. I think it really impacts the neutrality of github. If I would compete with microsoft in a certain space, I would really think twice about relying on github.

Also, this monopolization is driving me mad.

Re: Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub

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Post by carlosdp »

"The acquisition provides a way forward for San Francisco-based GitHub, which has been trying for nine months to find a new CEO and has yet to make a profit from its popular service that allows coders to share and collaborate on their work."

Github was profitable day 1 from what I remember, before they took the $100 million from Andreseen, right?

Re: Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub

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Post by mikece »

gressquel wrote: post #8
shmerl wrote: post #2

I guess it's time to move to Gitlab.

I am gonna wait and see. I know they messed up Skype really bad, but LinkedIN for example they havent touched and destroyed. I will wait and see..

Microsoft screwed up Skype by trying to “make it more Microsoft” whereas LinkedIn is being left to operate as before (tough MSFT is using the data for something). My guess is that GitHub will continue as before with the main change being that MSDN subscribers will likely get private GitHub repos as part of their package.

Now MSFT just needs something along the lines of Jira to replace the dog’s breakfast that is VSTS Agile project management tooling. I don’t suppose the folks in Redmond are looking to acquire Atlassian next...?

Re: Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub

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Post by vinn124 »

shmerl wrote: post #11
atmosx wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

MS has had an 180 degree turn in policy since Balmer left. Lately they released amazing open-source projects with VSCode being the most prominent one.

I simply have little trust in MS. They did improve in some areas, but not enough to gain overall trust. They are still not on the same page with many FOSS efforts. Company which actively pushes lock-in and patent aggression is not a good steward for FOSS projects.

particularly when most microsoft investors value microsoft stock for its earnings potential, as opposed to growth/revenue potential.
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