I'm losing faith that people are in tech for anything more than the payday.
Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub
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#392Gitlab is a good solution for most folks. They have a for profit business powered by open source software.
GH also had a for-profit business. Apparently the profits weren't enough, but they were profitable and bootstrapped in their early days
It says in the article:
GitHub, which has been trying for nine months to find a new CEO and has yet to make a profit from its popular service that allows coders to share and collaborate on their work.
Re: Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub
#393Long live https://notabug.org
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#394The irony. 404 comments.
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#395Tangentially 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…
SourceGraph tries to fix it, and the experience of searching, jump-to-definition and generally getting to grips with a codebase is way better there IMO. They also have browser plugins with integration to GitHub. I recommend you to check it out.
Sourcegraph is great, but I had to disable the browser plugin because it opens a new tab on every github search. So annoying.
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#396The 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 anym…
> they surely don‘t want to spend a lot of money just to destroy the relationship again
The old MS — and I'm not trying to comment on how different or similar the current MS is to the old one — did indeed spend a lot of money to screw developers and the developer community, including developers who bought into the MS stack.
> but saying that Github will be ruined? We should be better than this.
I don't think many people are worried MS will ruin GitHub, per se. I think what most people are worried about is that MS will change GitHub enough to inject MS-specific stuff in there.
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#397I spent eight years building software on .NET, so I have a lot of time for Microsoft, but I fully understand why a lot of people aren't happy with this news. It's been good to have a leader in open-source that is unaffiliated with anyone but the tech they chose to use (Ruby/Rails). For me, it doesn't matter who takes it over - it's just sad to see a neutral player disappear. With all that said, things have changed a…
This dovetails nicely with Windows Subsystem for Linux, VS Code, and Microsoft’s ongoing play to capture the Silicon Valley hipster development ecosystem that Apple is alienating.
Yeah, the open source dev community may very well see Microsoft quite differently in upcoming years if they keep playing their cards this way.
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#398It'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…
The whole world's demanding it. No one really knows how to do it efficiently, it seems.
I disagree. The popularity of GitHub amongst the programming community means that ease of use / convenience is more important than the notion of “decentralization”. Otherwise, people would already be setting up their servers for hosting git repos.
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#399Speaking of fickle developers, I'm already planning my exit. Any mention of Microsoft is enough to turn me off, I have seen enough - I have had enough.
And... what has Microsoft done to you lately? Gates is playing international philanthropist; Ballmer is playing NBA owner. The new regime not only likes open source and contribute massively to open source projects, they joined the Linux Foundation at the _Platinum_ level... there are a lot of "good open source companies" with deep pockets who haven't done that. Like Google. https://www.linuxfoundation.org/press-relea…
>And... what has Microsoft done to you lately?
Skype.
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#400I'm not that big of a fan of Microsoft to begin with, but I definitely see a reason to be wary about this. I don't really want any Microsoft integration into GitHub, and really the best case would be for them to not change much with the site at all, although I don't see this being the case.