I wonder what Linus thinks about this. He has a mirror of the Linux kernel on GitHub: https://github.com/torvalds
Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub
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#312So a lot of people mention GitLab as an alternative. Would anyone with experience with that platform care to chime in and list some pros & cons compared to Github?
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#313What 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…
Do they really get more wealthy than the greatest kings who ever lived in history? I can name a few Roman emperors (kings all but in name, ironic as I'm being pedantic) who had a whole lot more money, respective of their peers and the times. Same with a lot of European monarchs, historically and in the present day.
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#314Guys 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,…
Can you provide more details on how IPFS/SAFE can help and if there are any interesting projects?
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#315Why Github can't host the Linux kernel community
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#316It'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…
Where is the Github on Blockchain project?
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#317Tangentially related, but maybe microsoft could actually do that : why is github's search so terribly bad ? If they had developed a good powerful code search (custom semantic engine for most used languages, complex queries, exact/fuzzy matches for syntax, use of history, etc) they could have become the primary way you interact with code you don't know yet. As it stands now it's simply more efficient to clone and use…
So we're asking the creators of Bing to fix it?
Bing is actually quite good. Not as good as Google, but much better than Github.
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#318Earlier quoted context omitted.
the history of Microsoft is the reason why we all reacting this way. But encouraged by the move they made lately coming into Linux, even though other players have forced their hand
I would be as worried if it was AWS or Google. Github should remain a neutral ground in my opinion.
It already was Google. Remember Google Code?
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#319I 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.
The costs of the fancy office and the workforce should be quite high as well.
The cash flow is probably good but even with a million customers at $5 a month, that's not enough to sustain a large company.
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#320This 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…
> Microsoft has always been the largest developer advocate of any of the major tech players
That just means that none of the major tech players have been doing a whole lot in this regard.