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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 overeater »

jakebasile wrote: post #444
parvenu74 wrote: post #383

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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…

I am forced to use Windows for gaming, and let me tell you what Microsoft has done to me lately. - Forced updates are a travesty. I should be able to delay or ignore updates indefinitely as I own my computer. - I'm not allowed to not run an antivirus program, despite having no need of one. I can only temporarily pause Windows Defender's real-time checks before they'll helpfully turn it back on for me. This results in…

Yes, thank you. People are quick to point out the Microsoft hasn't done anything detrimental to society, forget that their software is such a mess. We're too focused on judging companies based on whether employees get paternity leave, an offhand remark by a CEO, or recent scandals, that we're forgetting about the quality of software we're installing on our computers. When I saw a bunch of spammy games like March of Empires and Candy Crush installed with my Windows 10 Pro, I thought I got a bad copy -- instead it was truly just part of their operating system. They force their terrible antivirus (which keeps quarantining files I'm working on, when I'm working with low-level .exe patching) and forced updates and reboots. I wish there was a way to have Windows that's just an operating system.

Re: Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub

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Post by passiveincomelg »

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,…

Yes. Any centralization/single point of failure developing on the internet is a bug.

Re: Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub

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Post by oblio »

timvisee wrote: post #431
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…

Although this doesn't directly have anything to do with open-source; look at what happened to Skype, LinkedIn, and other companies they acquired.

LinkedIn? The network everyone loved to hate? I don't think anything has changed in that regard, if anything, Microsoft are probably 1% more trustworthy compared to the super-shady LinkedIn management of old.

Re: Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub

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Post by [deleted] »

jakebasile wrote: post #444
parvenu74 wrote: post #383

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

I am forced to use Windows for gaming, and let me tell you what Microsoft has done to me lately. - Forced updates are a travesty. I should be able to delay or ignore updates indefinitely as I own my computer. - I'm not allowed to not run an antivirus program, despite having no need of one. I can only temporarily pause Windows Defender's real-time checks before they'll helpfully turn it back on for me. This results in…

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Re: Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub

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Post by coldseattle »

Good! Getting rid of Atom for Visual Studio Code should make things a lot better (and allow them to free up some staff). And if they eliminate they head of "community" that makes public repository owners have to tiptoe around any sensitive snowflake's sensibilities, that will fix most of the remaining problems.

Re: Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub

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Post by xt00 »

joering2 wrote: post #454
timvisee wrote: post #431

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Although this doesn't directly have anything to do with open-source; look at what happened to Skype, LinkedIn, and other companies they acquired.

Did i miss some news? Skype is still Skype and Linkedin hasn’t changed much either. ?? if anything those two proves being Acquired by MS is not as bad as for example Google who loves to eventually shut down their acquirers.

Skype UI was changed dramatically for virtually no obvious reason and resulted in the usage of skype to be way more annoying for basically no good reason. They then rebranded Lync to be called Skype for Business which is a giant mess because like so many microsoft enterprise products it uses some strange scheme to connect to either a web-based server or to an enterprise server that invariably is not setup correctly and never works reliably. So they basically bought skype which everybody loved and turned it into something that a huge amount of people don't like now due to UI changes and created a second version of Skype that basically barely works and many people are forced to use at work..

Re: Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub

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Post by sametmax »

the_trapper wrote: post #116
sametmax wrote: post #38

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Me too. I'm waiting for the official transaction to be done and i'm preparing a plan b in case i have to migrate everything. More mitigation work is just what i needed. The skype one took years, many failures, and resulting in the use of several tools instead of one. Not a win.

Isn't that one of the strengths of Git? The whole decentralization means that it is ridiculously simply to take the whole shebang and migrate to another service or even just self host on a cheap VPS.

Yes but you still have configurations and docs referencing the repo to change. Then find a mean to alert all interested persons. And then write a script to migrate the issues.

It's not a big deal, it's just work that I don't want to do. Espacially since I love github.

Re: Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub

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Post by coldseattle »

obl wrote: post #16

Tangentially 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…

Microsoft should be able to leverage Bing to do good deep searches across all code. This would be a big win for everyone (and Bing!)

Re: Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub

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Post by severino »

peteretep wrote: post #262
sverige wrote: post #142

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That's not paranoia. That is completely reasonable considering Microsoft's history.

Microsoft have a history of corporate espionage against their customers?

Well, considering all this "telemetry" thing they have been pushing down its customer's throats, I wouldn't be comfortable at all with this move.
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