Microsoft was the second most frequent contributor on Github (to Google)[1].
[1] https://medium.freecodecamp.org/the-top-contributors-to-gith...
Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub
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#512This is amazing. I hope they build in support for Azure and let us have free private repos.
Congratulations to Microsoft!
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#513Microsoft being an owner here doesn't bother me that much.
The Azure integrations are inevitable. I guess we'll see if Microsoft has learned that strong-armed vendor lock-in makes people not like them. At this point, I am more glad they were acquired by Microsoft than Amazon. Still - there is still so much Microsoft ill-will, that this will take away the aura of 'software purity' from the GitHub.
Microsoft, please be a kind steward... I don't want to waste time migrating.
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#514Earlier quoted context omitted.
I could see developers ditching GitHub with the acquisition for a perceived conflict of interest. It's really easy to change your remote. I see a potentially big market opportunity for anyone who wants to compete in the space now.
This is also why I put my documentation in markdown files in the repo instead of using the Github wiki. I knew it would save me hassle later.
This means everybody linking to your docs will link to GitHub, thus you have a hard time moving ;)
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#515I 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…
One could argue that both Atlassian and Github were to some extent successful, because they kept the open source competitors away by giving out free licenses to open source projects. With these free options available, people in community were less interested in putting effort to free (as in speech) alternatives for these closed source products.
Yes this is likely.
However we can have our cake and eat it too, companies can host an instance of an open source service. Like Gitlab does
EDIT, yes I am aware that there are some non open parts in Gitlab.com
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#516GitLab > Import all repositories from GitHub
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#517Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think the network effect is too great to ignore. I would guess the number of potential contributors you get just by using GitHub, where many people have an account and know the workflow/UI, is bigger than any other place. 5 years from now when GitLab is acquired by Google we'll have to migrate again.
At least Gitlab can be forked in case of disaster. You can't do it for Github.
Well you don't need to. You can use gitlab or gitea.
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#518It'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…
Centralization has an undeniable fundamental attraction. Everything, really, seems to naturally trend towards centralization, and then major scandals reverse the trend. We will probably swing back and forth between the two in perpetuity. The whole darn internet was built to be decentralized. And yet we all use GMail, the same handful of DNS servers, the same short list of major trunk hubs, the same shrinking list of…
Maybe we can eventually achieve something like decentralized ownership of centralized web resources.
While not quite decentralized ownership, Wikipedia is at least a non-profit that everyone contributes donations to. Where's the Wikipedia for code? Where's the non-profit donation-based social network?
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#519Earlier quoted context omitted.
Centralization has an undeniable fundamental attraction. Everything, really, seems to naturally trend towards centralization, and then major scandals reverse the trend. We will probably swing back and forth between the two in perpetuity. The whole darn internet was built to be decentralized. And yet we all use GMail, the same handful of DNS servers, the same short list of major trunk hubs, the same shrinking list of…
Ben Thompson at Stratechery has been banging the centralization drum for a while. His take is the sheer scale of the internet imbues tremendous value to any centralized service that can organize it (e.g. what Google does for web pages or Facebook does for your friends). If this is the case then the internet may end up more centralized than previous forms of media and communication. I hope that's wrong, but it seems t…
So that's how Stratechery is spelled! I have been listening to Exponent for a while and failed to find the site on Google.
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#520I am very interested in what will happen with these accounts (t name a few) the next few weeks / months:
https://github.com/torvalds/linux https://github.com/mozilla https://github.com/google