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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 zzzcpan »

NicoJuicy wrote: post #569

I think a couple of people will change to gitlab or alternatives because of how Microsoft was in the 90's. But that Microsoft has changed, I see the most what people are complaining about is telemetry that is send, for following up on their biggest product. But all companies do this ( eg. https://techcrunch.com/2016/03/28/its-not-just-you-clicking-... ), also open source applications eg. Ubuntu,.. do this. Microsoft…

Being evil is a natural state for any large corporation. Trying to be not evil is always either fake or temporary. Microsoft cannot change, until it is split into hundreds of companies. Neither can Google, Facebook, Amazon or Apple.

Re: Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub

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Post by booleandilemma »

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…

I completely agree with your comment. As much as I love Microsoft, this is a weird development.

It’s like if Google bought Mozilla and Firefox became just another Google browser.

Re: Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub

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Post by awat »

flatline wrote: post #571
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…

I also spent years working with Microsoft’s proprietary technologies. The reality of Embrace, Extend, Extinguish was still alive and well as late as 2011 when I mostly stopped dealing with them. Since that time they have definitely taken a new direction, with increasing adoption of Linux in particular, but I have trouble belieiving the corporate DNA has been so thoroughly overwritten in the last few years that this d…

This, I was trying to think of the right way to state this. Looks like I’ll be looking for alternatives.

Re: Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub

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Post by bhouston »

guitarbill wrote: post #577
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…

This "synergy" seems to be pretty one-sided. Which of these synergies is useful for existing GitHub users? That's kind of the problem with this acquisition, which is why few Github users are excited for it. It also doesn't feel like Microsoft understands developers or even end users consistently. VSCode is a nice editor, but not the only one. The MSDN docs and site is awful. Azure is okay, but Windows 10 is somehow m…

GitHub subscriptions included in msdn?

Re: Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub

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Post by feelix »

Does it strike anyone else as ironic that Linus, the creator of linux, wrote git, which then went on to be used for github... and that it was good enough that Linus decided to use it to host linux on github, and then Microsoft bought it? So now, unless it gets moved, the linux kernel is going to be hosted on Microsoft's platform, even though git itself was created by the creator of linux.

Re: Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub

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Post by TheAceOfHearts »

EnderMB wrote: post #560
JumpCrisscross wrote: post #511

Microsoft was the second most frequent contributor on Github (to Google)[1]. [1] https://medium.freecodecamp.org/the-top-contributors-to-gith...

Absolutely, and this has been the case for many years. Microsoft has contributed to open source heavily for a long time, but it won't stop a lot of people that have been burned in the past from not trusting Microsoft.

It's worth noting that the same goes for Apple. They have tons of closed source stuff, but they also make huge contributions to the open source world. If it weren't for them we wouldn't have LLVM or Clang as they exist today. WebKit is another big one.

Re: Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub

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Post by gkoberger »

feelix wrote: post #587

Does it strike anyone else as ironic that Linus, the creator of linux, wrote git, which then went on to be used for github... and that it was good enough that Linus decided to use it to host linux on github, and then Microsoft bought it? So now, unless it gets moved, the linux kernel is going to be hosted on Microsoft's platform, even though git itself was created by the creator of linux.

Linux doesn't use GitHub for anything other than a mirror, and Linus famously hates GitHub.

(More reading: https://www.wired.com/2012/05/torvalds-github/)

Re: Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub

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Post by phs318u »

Symbiote wrote: post #533
frutiger wrote: post #498

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you ever get something for free, remember something somewhere is subsidizing it. Whether that's the other paid accounts, which therefore must be uncompetitively priced, VC funding (which will eventually run out), or your data is sold.

> your data is sold It's now easier to see some of this, with the GDPR rules. The Gitlab cookie page lists 80 "marketing" cookies which may be set: https://about.gitlab.com/privacy/cookies/

Wow. On the one hand I'm impressed with the openness (almost - what does purpose='unclassified' mean?), as well as the option to elect which cookie category I agree to. On the other hand... my, that's a lot of tracking!
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