Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub • Hacker News Board

Re: Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub

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Post by miketery » Sun, Jun 03, 2018, 9:11 PM UTC

Jedd wrote: post #21

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.

I'm not familiar with recent behaviour anything in particular? (My memory goes to Skype...)

Re: Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub

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Post by fntd » Sun, Jun 03, 2018, 9:12 PM UTC

The negativity in here is crazy. It‘s not even official yet everyone already seems to know that Microsoft will destroy Github. Microsoft tried really hard to improve their relationship with developers in the last couple of years and they surely don‘t want to spend a lot of money just to destroy the relationship again. I can understand the scepticism and that people dislike the fact that Github is not independant anymore, but saying that Github will be ruined? We should be better than this.

Re: Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub

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Post by foepys » Sun, Jun 03, 2018, 9:12 PM UTC

Every business that built their service around the GitHub ecosystem will get massively screwed. They should immediately start to integrate as many GitHub competitors as possible or Microsoft will just eat them within the next months. GitHub always wanted to concentrate on the code hosting, not the CI/CD, code quality, code analysis, etc parts but Microsoft will soon start to extend GitHub to support Azure's services directly.

Re: Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub

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Post by rbanffy » Sun, Jun 03, 2018, 9:12 PM UTC

EGreg wrote: post #270

Guys and girls, I really don’t get this. It’s 2018! Why do we need third party domains to act as landlords for our content? Git is decentralized. Why do we need GitHub, when we can have a decentralized network of dumb servers storing various encrypted chunks of stuff, replicated? (At least use the new keybase software, or host GitLab on the servers of your choice.) Why do we need to choose a landlord? Amazon’s store,…

We don't use Github to host Git repos alone. We use it as a tool for collaboration - to track bugs, host some documentation, do code reviews, track workflow and so on. And, most of all, we use it for discoverability. It's easy to find things on Github.

> Why did we stop at DNS?

A lot of companies host their domain servers on AWS because Route 53 makes it convenient.

A real successor to Github would allow all the extras around Git, but in a federated way. We'd deploy a server for our projects, different addresses for our repos and all members of this federation would agree on an API and share data with each other.

It's doable, but, unless it's easier than other options, it won't fly.

Re: Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub

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Post by youseecomrade » Sun, Jun 03, 2018, 9:12 PM UTC

nyxtom wrote: post #197

It'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…

I think the network effect is too great to ignore. I would guess the number of potential contributors you get just by using GitHub, where many people have an account and know the workflow/UI, is bigger than any other place.

5 years from now when GitLab is acquired by Google we'll have to migrate again.

Re: Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub

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Post by beenBoutIT » Sun, Jun 03, 2018, 9:12 PM UTC

nyxtom wrote: post #197

It'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…

Tremendous point.

Re: Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub

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Post by saurik » Sun, Jun 03, 2018, 9:12 PM UTC

nyxtom wrote: post #197

It'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…

> Maybe this event will finally shift things back into a decentralized direction.

People say this every time stuff like this happens, and yet people never learn :/.

Re: Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub

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Post by markovbot » Sun, Jun 03, 2018, 9:12 PM UTC

shp0ngle wrote: post #298

They can finally join github and LinkedIn

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Re: Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub

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Post by bitL » Sun, Jun 03, 2018, 9:13 PM UTC

So, where should I switch to now? I dumped LinkedIn and Skype since MS acquired it, next is GitHub. Hosting own GitLab? Something else?

Re: Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub

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Post by braindongle » Sun, Jun 03, 2018, 9:14 PM UTC

What specific user-affecting changes would the new overlords make that suck for developers? I don't doubt that there are good answers to this. They could treat it like a cash cow and just start charging more for less, but I mean functional changes.