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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 jfk92n8 »

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.

Change to Keybase git

Doesn’t get more neutral than private key encrypted source control

Re: Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub

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Post by johnchristopher »

EnderMB wrote: post #117

I 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…

It makes that Gitlab graph https://about.gitlab.com/images/blogimages/forrester-ci-wave... even more interesting.

Re: Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub

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Post by gerdesj »

Soooo .... Linus Torvalds knocks together a code repo thingie a few years back because Bit Keeper became a bit too non free (nice one Tridge P) and calls it Git. Git is specifically designed not to need centralisation. It turns out that git is not just for Linux and can be used to manage lots of software development. A few companies spring up with some paid for value add stuff - mainly centralisation with a pretty frontend.

MS buys GitHub for $5B.

Funny old world.

Re: Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub

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Post by andrew_ »

taf2 wrote: post #435
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 guess it'll just take a lot longer for this generation to see MS as anything but embrace, extend, extinguish.

This. Very much this.

Re: Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub

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Post by jimduk »

parvenu74 wrote: post #383
EchelonFuxMe wrote: post #329

Speaking 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…

  - LinkedIn
  - Skype
  - Lies around Windows 10 semi-forced upgrade
  - Nokia
  - The hell that is Office365
  - Vermeer
  - Groove
  - Rare
  - Visio
  - Hotmail
  - FASA
  - Firefly
I don't mind their strategy from a business perspective, but from a human perspective I mind they have crushed the goodness out of so many companies they have acquired. It's analogous to the chinese cultural revolution, or if some 3rd rate florentine artist got to buy out Botticelli et al. just as they got started. I know this is not only Microsoft (Cisco, Google et al.) but MS are not innocent and don't deserve to have their slate wiped clean (yet)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mergers_and_acquisitio...

Re: Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub

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Post by StudentStuff »

jaegerpicker wrote: post #404
acidburnNSA wrote: post #289

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Good point. It's not too crazy to have people behind major open-source efforts get their own VPS's and run Phabricator or Gitlab. With a universal login akin to OAuth maybe it's doable.

That's insane, not only do developers and maintainers devote a huge part of their life to major open-source efforts, now they are expected to spend more time and money setting up, admining, and securing their own private servers? That's a great way to destroy Open Source projects. Very few people would be able/willing to put that much effort into it.

How is running a bit of infrastructure so lethal? Most of my libre projects aren't on Github, and running your own Git server isn't terribly difficult.

Re: Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub

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Post by digianarchist »

snthd wrote: post #409
marricks wrote: post #234

Can anything exist anymore without A) Getting acquired by a multinational B) Becoming one Sure, MS visual code is open but as a few players get more and more power we all become subject to their whims and not them to ours. MS is pushing their ads within their own OS more and more, will GitHub get the same treatment, or will it’s data be useful to MS for those ads? What sort of integrations can we expect to see with o…

>Can anything exist anymore without... See the recent post about ghost (it has a structure that can't be sold) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17082228

Not really the same. The Ghost foundation exists purely to fund John O Nolan’s digital nomad lifestyle.

Product hasn’t changed a lot since launch.

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Post by dingdingdang »

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…

I'm with you on this one: Win10 is a travesty and is literally forcing me (and the organisation I work for) to switch to Linux distro. Cannot have Pro editions randomly install Candy Crush and reset privacy settings at Microsoft's leisure. No.

Re: Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub

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Post by andrew_ »

jaegerpicker wrote: post #404
acidburnNSA wrote: post #289

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Good point. It's not too crazy to have people behind major open-source efforts get their own VPS's and run Phabricator or Gitlab. With a universal login akin to OAuth maybe it's doable.

That's insane, not only do developers and maintainers devote a huge part of their life to major open-source efforts, now they are expected to spend more time and money setting up, admining, and securing their own private servers? That's a great way to destroy Open Source projects. Very few people would be able/willing to put that much effort into it.

Not sure if this is an age-gap or participation-gap here but that's EXACTLY what we did before Github came along. My foray into open source started in '99 and it wasn't until 2010? that we had good centralized alternatives to switch to. Hell, jQuery was on a hosted version of Trac until just recently. And yes, we spent time on it. A great deal more than "very few" did the same and were involved and passionate about it.
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