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> Maybe this event will finally shift things back into a decentralized direction. People say this every time stuff like this happens, and yet people never learn :/.
> Talks about a decentralized environment Keeps his tools related to Cydia closed-source...
GitHub is a venture backed company with some $350M raised according to Crunchbase[1]. As such, your options are pretty much limited to IPO, being acquired, generating crazy profits and buying out investors to stay private, or go bankrupt. Since it appears they had hard time turning profitable[2], I’m hardly surprised that GH May be ending the way of Microsoft. I think it’s worthwile question to everyone who is lament…
Either they eventually fail/become evil, or they don't. If they do, just move somewhere else. If they don't, good.
(Benefits of non-proprietary software and standards like git.)
Just like how no e-commerce/retailer wants to use AWS for competitive reasons, now no tech company who hosts its codebase on GitHub would want to continue doing that if its MSFT-owned. It's already happening: https://twitter.com/nixcraft/status/1003388106626629632
> Just like how no e-commerce/retailer wants to use AWS for competitive reason My former employer, a major e-commerce player in Europe and a direct competitor of Amazon, had basically their entire infrastucture on AWS. You might want to reconsider your definition of “no”.
This may just be paranoia but if I were competing with Microsoft on something that I'd have private code for hosted on GitHub, I'd be pretty worried right now.
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MS has had an 180 degree turn in policy since Balmer left. Lately they released amazing open-source projects with VSCode being the most prominent one.
Honest question: do the still threaten Linux-related companies with suing for violations of unspecified Microsoft patents?
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…
> I think a couple of people will change to gitlab or alternatives because of how Microsoft was in the 90's. And because of how Microsoft was in the 2000s, and the 2010s. Ballmer was after the 90s. Did they ever stop suing Android manufacturers for using FAT, or open up exFAT after managing to get it as part of the SDXC standard? > also open source applications eg. Ubuntu,.. do this ...Yeah, Ubuntu did that. Not Debi…
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If it’s any consolation, Apple Music is terrible on iOS and MacOS as well.
True, but Windows users would find it odd if an app didn't suck. It has to match the overall Windows experience. Note: I'm working on making Chef code work for Windows deployments of an application that runs under Node. I have strong opinions on Windows right now.
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…
Changed? What makes you say that?
From the tiny interaction I have with MS I don’t think this is the case.
E.g. In my wife’s PC I have Firefox as the default browser, however:
1. If she clicks on one of the login manager wallpaper photos, the page opens in MS Edge.
2. Every time there is an update, MS Edge reappears as an icon on the desktop.
No, MS hasn’t changed. Their PR may have, but at core they are as evil as ever.
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> I hope they don't discontinue Atom Hadn't crossed my mind that they might drop Atom for VS Code before...
Atom is open source though. One company can not decide to kill it. https://github.com/atom/atom
RethinkDB was something that I though would still go strong without the backing. I never used it and was never involved, so I'd love to hear what happened when the company died.
(One exemption is Xfree86 though, which was forked successfully by to community to Xorg if I recall correctly)