Microsoft [...] is now one if the biggest contributors to GitHub Citation needed ?
https://octoverse.github.com/2016/ under Organizations with the most open source contributors
Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub
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#202Microsoft paying $2B for a company based on Linus Torvalds' work, unreal.
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#203Now we need a GitLab alternative, just in case MS decides GitHub isn't enough.
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#204I wonder how Microsoft can manage to commercialize all the projects on GitHub. Maybe by providing an universal installer that works through the Windows Store. Maybe by adding a few mandatory patches to each project that improve compatibility. Maybe by making a much improved version of Git with a proper GUI interface. The possibilities are endless!
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#205Microsoft's own hosted platform Visual Studio Team Services is nuetral. It supports hosted and on prem build and deployment agents for Windows, Linux, Android, and iOS. There are easy to use plug ins for building and deploying on both Azure and AWS. You can use Github now for hosted git repositories in VSTS and still use Microsoft's other build and release tools. Thier Wiki is Markdown based and they have a very visi…
I think you ascribe different meaning to "neutral" than most others here
I ascribe "neutral" to technology. VSTS supports every major platform/OS and the tools are on par for all of them.
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#206I don't understand how GitHub has been unable to become profitable. Anyone know more and want to share some details?
My guess is they built a very expensive system for the kind of scale they support. It's all RoR and sharded mysql right? Considering how dynamic it is, the resources to power that must be mind boggling.
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#207What a betrayal. I'm starting to get really sick of this whole economic paradigm in general. A few lucky smart people who were in the right place at the right time become fabulously wealthy beyond the dreams of the greatest kings who ever lived in history, off the work and contributions of millions of users creating all of the content for free, with absolutely no say in anything. Is this really the best way to do thi…
Sure. It motivates millions of young developers to try to become kings.
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#209Pack it in boys
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#210Earlier quoted context omitted.
Me too. I'm waiting for the official transaction to be done and i'm preparing a plan b in case i have to migrate everything. More mitigation work is just what i needed. The skype one took years, many failures, and resulting in the use of several tools instead of one. Not a win.
Isn't that one of the strengths of Git? The whole decentralization means that it is ridiculously simply to take the whole shebang and migrate to another service or even just self host on a cheap VPS.
Yes but with services like Issues and Wiki built into GitHub and Gitlab ... If you made use of the extra services by the Platform Provider, then you possibly have alot of non-trivial project dependencies to move around ... like your Issue history for the project.