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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 geuis »

I may be in the minority. I’ve had a change of heart over the last 5 years or so towards Microsoft. They’ve changed a lot of the practices that used to make me not like them. They’ve embraced open source a lot more than in the past and have clamped down a lot on the anti competitive practices they used for decades. I also have a good friend that works there and I’ve seen how the sausage is made from the inside a bit. They treat their employees really well and from what I’ve experienced they’re a good company to work for.

I don’t have a hard opinion on this acquisition for the OSS community, but it will be good for the employees and I’m hopeful that not much will change with Github as a service and somethings may even get better. Time will tell of course.

Re: Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub

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Post by voltagex_ »

neckardt wrote: post #474
st26 wrote: post #353

Earlier 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…

I've always found it too difficult to choose the "decentralized" option for many services. It's just not convenient enough to spin up my own gitlab server, or own email. I tried to do both of those things a while ago when I was still new to Linux, and gave up due to the number of steps involved which I inevitably fucked up. The solution for me would be packages which hold my hand through the install process to make i…

I saw someone post on Twitter saying they were tired of being their own sysadmin.

It's true - I could set up my own mail server, my own Git hosting etc etc, but why would I? I'd rather just pay Fastmail for email and GitHub for some private repos.

Re: Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub

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Post by t_treesap »

rainbowmverse wrote: post #415
miguelrochefort wrote: post #373

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

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

Well, sort of. It's limited to 5 contributors, which is kind of a big deal if you're on a serious team.

Re: Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub

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Post by keithnz »

lkrubner wrote: post #17

I'm worried. Consider what happened to Skype. Consider what happened to LinkedIn. I worry something similar will happen to Github. And I love Github. At some point Microsoft told me I had to change my password for Skype. The "Reset your password" process failed 6 times in a row. I eventually had to create a new, Microsoft ID, to use Skype. I lost all of my old contacts and had to slowly recreate my address book. This…

Microsoft is big, with different divisions you can consider what it did with consumer apps, but you'd be better off considering what it has done with developer tools.

There, Microsoft shines. So, we will just have to wait and see what they do. My guess is the main thing they will do is make it super easy to deploy to azure from the github UI.

Re: Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub

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Post by EastSmith »

nyxtom wrote: post #197

It'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…

Totally agree. For me decentralized means desktop clients or own cloud. Own cloud is more expensive to maintain. Desktop app are more expensive to develop and maintain too.

Re: Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub

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Post by paulie_a »

genofon wrote: post #55
lkrubner wrote: post #17

I'm worried. Consider what happened to Skype. Consider what happened to LinkedIn. I worry something similar will happen to Github. And I love Github. At some point Microsoft told me I had to change my password for Skype. The "Reset your password" process failed 6 times in a row. I eventually had to create a new, Microsoft ID, to use Skype. I lost all of my old contacts and had to slowly recreate my address book. This…

I would agree with Skype, but what actually happened with LinkedIn? I remember in pre-Microsoft times they asked me for my google email and password.. right not to log-ing with google but the email and password! I understand it's more LinkedIn's fault than Microsoft merit, but I just wanted to say, IMO there were never "good times" for LinkedIn

LinkedIn remains as pointless as ever.

Re: Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub

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Post by falsedan »

saagarjha wrote: post #320
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…

> Microsoft has always been the largest developer advocate of any of the major tech players That just means that none of the major tech players have been doing a whole lot in this regard.

I miss the comprehensive programming docs from MSDN.

Re: Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub

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Post by voltagex_ »

EastSmith wrote: post #520

I 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

What do you think will happen?

What advantage would any change bring for Microsoft?

(/torvalds/linux is not the upstream, btw)

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