Deleting my accounts tonight. I just can't stomach a future Microsoft Github Azure™ 365 Enterprise Edition with LinkedIn™ integration. Fucking gross.
Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub
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#282Earlier quoted context omitted.
We'll not spam GitHub. But we see people #movingtogitlab
I think your company has a great product, but your shitty hashtag spamming surely won't make me adopt it.
I completely agree. I am a happy Gitlab user. I think it is a great product. The CEO coming into this thread repeatedly pushing "#movingtogitlab" is a pretty tasteless move.
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#283This is a completely smart purchase on Microsoft's part. I can't imagine more synergy between two companies: - Microsoft has always been the largest developer advocate of any of the major tech players (Google has been a great contender for this position since 2010). - Microsoft has moved most of their open source projects to Github. - Microsoft is a major contributor to Git, including massive infrastructure projects…
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#284Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Unfortunately, the company that owns it profits from Windows sales and doesn't profit from any other OS.
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#285What 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…
It's a real problem.
And yet, pure open-source / community initiatives don't seem to have the strong centralized control that appears to be needed to make good, user-focused software. Alterantives?
(I wonder if projects that reach a certain size shouldn't basically be nationalized. Private enterprise is great at innovating, not so good at maintaining w/o slipping into bullshit exploitation / ruining what was good in the first place. Obviously you'd have to be careful to do this in a way that still left enough of a payoff to not discourage new private enterprises.)
Re: Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub
#286What 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…
> What a betrayal. Why is this a betrayal?
Because Microsoft wrecks almost everything it touches lately, including its own sacred-cow products like Windows itself, in an effort to force it to serve the company’s interests over those of its (paying!) customers?
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#287and .. we will start seeing Linkedin ads on Github.
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#288This seems like an odd move that I would have expected investors in GitHub to oppose for the sake of preserving one of GitHub’s biggest advantages: its large number of projects (to the point where it seems like practically everything is on GitHub). You see, whether or not it’s justified, some projects invariably will leave GitHub simply because it’s Microsoft . And then, GitHub will no longer feel like a place where…
They have reached the end goal of the big buyout. What more could they possibly want?
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#289It's interesting that the HN community continues to make reference to the prospect of a decentralized internet when Git was built to be decentralized in the first place. In spite of this, we all have congregated around GitHub for the community and are shocked when the centralized source we've been using gets acquired by a company we don't trust. That's sort of the whole point of centralization, you can't trust it. Ma…
Good point. It's not too crazy to have people behind major open-source efforts get their own VPS's and run Phabricator or Gitlab. With a universal login akin to OAuth maybe it's doable.
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#290I hope this encourages people to fight vendor lock-in a bit and move to self-hosted git portals. With SaaS there is always the danger of acquisitions and degradation of service. The solution is open software, self hosted and portable. Git itself is absurdly easy to self host, but self-hosted alternatives to github deserve more attention, both in terms of use and development effort.
See here for some alternatives: https://github.com/Kickball/awesome-selfhosted#project-manag...
(Funny that this list is hosted on github.)