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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 oaiey »

Rapzid wrote: post #212

I'm hoping this puts the times of people with political agendas stearing the GitHub message well behind us. They weren't really neutral anymore when the CEO stepped asside and they got the business guy to take over... I suspect MS is aware of the delicate situation in regards to alienation the user base. If this goes through I expect them to address this directly and with perhaps some creativity. As a bonus Microsoft…

I also think that Microsoft is very aware of this situation. They should already work on the communication part of this. And if true that maybe Nat Friedman will take over, they will handle it the right way. He has shipped his Mono team and the later Xamarin stack through four companies with success and stability for the product and the team.

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Post by [deleted] »

dilap wrote: post #285
aphextron wrote: post #159

What 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…

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Post by SmellyGeekBoy »

TheCabin wrote: post #157
hapnin wrote: post #28

Why I'll never trust Microsoft ever again. "postmaster@nsa.gov" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSAKEY

Don't forget about: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguis...

I don't think anyone on HN has forgotten considering it's repeated ad nauseum on every single Microsoft story on here.

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Post by mnm1 »

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…

If Microsoft does to github what they did to Skype, pushes will go into the wrong repo without authentication for no reason just like Skype had contacts and messages jump from one account to another for no reason. Pretty much everything they touch software wise is a disaster. I wonder if there will be ads or how exactly they will fuck it up, but I know for sure they will. Gitlab is fairly equivalent in features and much better in their pricing and plans anyway so I expect a lot of projects to move.

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Post by static_noise »

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..

Or you can move immediately like many others. What would you gain by staying until it's too late?

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Post by smolder »

ChicagoDave wrote: post #144

Reading through replies to this and especially about "the death of free software" makes me ask, "Was software ever free?" From my perspective, any software that has made it to production use ended up supported by some large for-profit corporation. Java And IBM and other companies hiring developers to work on "free software". Without the support of corporations, most software just dies. So Github is losing money and c…

This isn't even about free software... github is closed. It's SaaS. It just became a defacto standard interface, a sort of facebook for git. git is free and will stay that way.
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