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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 QML »

013a wrote: post #259

This 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…

How has the LinkedIn acquisition benefited LinkedIn users or Microsoft users?

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Post by beatle_sauce »

I expect partial geoblocking and more censorship.

The chinese government tried to force Github to censor shadowsocks and the NY times repository. But back then it would have to block the whole site with other resourceful content.

My guess is that when Github is with Microsoft, the communist party in China has far more leverage as Microsoft has to follow Chinese laws, e.g., for selling Windows (even a special government-version), and bc China is an important market. I hope I'm wrong.

Re: Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub

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Post by rainbowmverse »

miguelrochefort wrote: post #373
indigochill wrote: post #339

Heck, I already prefer Gitlab and/or Bitbucket because they let me run free (or at least self-hosted in Gitlab's case, not sure what their hosted option's like) private repos. Github's just got the mindshare going for it. But maybe now that'll change.

I'm sure GitHub will introduce free private repos soon enough.

Especially since Microsoft's own version control thing has this.

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Post by rahkiin »

guidovranken wrote: post #312

So 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?

I like that is also has CI/CD and other features, and that you can host it yourself (also for free). I do keep hearing about database issues on their hosted version though.

In general: haven't had problems with it, am cheaper than hosted GitHub, cheaper and works better than (self-)hosted Atlassian software.

That is for a developer duo.

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Post by simon_acca »

Ask yourself and ask your dev friends, who is paying for Github? I personally don't know a single person that is subscribed to it even after spending 5 years in academia and several others in the job pool. And yet every single person that I know && that can code is more than acquainted with github!

Now this could be the result of a lack of business acumen on github's part or stubborness from the users. In any case, it might be too late for github now, but I will myself conduct a review of the free services that I use regularly and reconsider pitching in, since I value independent businesses.

EDIT: looks like my experience may be atypical, that’s good! Just for anecdata, would you include where you live as part of your replies? In my case it’s central europe.

Re: Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub

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Post by TAForObvReasons »

codexon wrote: post #392
TAForObvReasons wrote: post #342

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

From 2010: https://signalvnoise.com/posts/2486-bootstrapped-profitable-...

At some point the situation clearly flipped

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Post by zeth___ »

phantom_oracle wrote: post #390

I don't quite understand why people are sad or disappointed about this acquisition. You should be extremely elated about it. You know why? Github was never an Open Source product itself but sat on top of the Open Source community and used that "goodwill" to license and sell its proprietary software. Now that another proprietary software-maker has acquired this company, maybe we can all finally adopt the principle tha…

Looking at you Atlasian.
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