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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 oculusthrift »

marricks wrote: post #806
archagon wrote: post #772

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Probably a direct consequence of VC funding.

Definitely, investors don't give you money just for kicks, they want a payday. It shapes the community... people who take that money get a head start, crowd out competition. Everyone needs to grow huge, get bought, or die. What could change this? People refusing money? Some encouragement to stay mid sized? Wonder if that will ever happen...

doesn’t matter what you do. there will always be a competitor that takes the money and kills you. If not, the big companies themselves will fund their own projects with 100x your budget

Re: Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub

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Post by [deleted] »

simon_acca wrote: post #417

Ask yourself and ask your dev friends, who is paying for Github? I personally don't know a single person that is subscribed to it even after spending 5 years in academia and several others in the job pool. And yet every single person that I know && that can code is more than acquainted with github! Now this could be the result of a lack of business acumen on github's part or stubborness from the users. In any case, i…

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Re: Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub

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Post by mips_avatar »

arashdelijani wrote: post #786
mips_avatar wrote: post #553

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I think that the biggest loser is going to be IBM clearcase. Especially in government/defense work the developers want to use git, but can’t get it because of lack of security reviews. I can guarantee you that Microsoft sales people are already calling every software group manager at all the defense contractors.

Can you elaborate on this? Why does using git preclude security reviews?

Any software precludes security reviews in defense work. My group wanted mediawiki to run an internal wiki behind the firewall and it took 18 months to pass and my boss had about a dozen meetings and countless emails. There are cases where a developer had to write code in word because he couldn’t get a text editor (allegedly I didn’t actually witness it). When your network is constantly under state sponsored attack these precautions aren’t pointless. But it takes a company like Microsoft or IBM to be able to work with security reviews and get them through quickly.

Re: Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub

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Post by Lordarminius »

x3haloed wrote: post #614
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…

That’s an interesting point about Atom and VS Code. Do you think we’ll likely see Atom die in favor of VS Code?

Atom is already dying imo. And if for a reason even a 5 year old can appreciate : it's simply too slow.

Re: Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub

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Post by mips_avatar »

naikrovek wrote: post #804
mips_avatar wrote: post #553

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I think that the biggest loser is going to be IBM clearcase. Especially in government/defense work the developers want to use git, but can’t get it because of lack of security reviews. I can guarantee you that Microsoft sales people are already calling every software group manager at all the defense contractors.

Well, clearcase is a horrible monster and it would benefit just about everyone on Earth if it dies. How many drivers on the road would be less likely to cut someone off or road rage if they didn't have to deal with ClearCase again? I'm sure that number is greater than zero. I'm only being partially facetious. ClearCase truly is the worst.

I was only an intern when I worked on clearcase so I don’t have a lot of personal experience. But the level of hatred my colleagues showed towards it left an impression.

Re: Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub

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Post by tootie »

PascLeRasc wrote: post #34

This is sad news. Partially because I don't care for Microsoft, but mostly because Github was a neutral third-party without any priorities. I hope they don't discontinue Atom or apply their UX styling to the site/desktop app. Like Spotify, I felt safer that a company was just doing hosting in their domain (of music or code projects) and wouldn't try to shovel some other tech into it like Apple making Apple Music terr…

GitHub has had more ethics fails in the past few years than MS.

Re: Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub

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Post by evilDagmar »

EnderMB wrote: post #555
closeparen wrote: post #371

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This dovetails nicely with Windows Subsystem for Linux, VS Code, and Microsoft’s ongoing play to capture the Silicon Valley hipster development ecosystem that Apple is alienating.

This was largely my thought behind the move. Given that GitHub is quite proudly built on Ruby, I can't see them wanting to switch things up from a tech perspective. GitHub is stable, and it's tech stack is capable of staying up despite some major DDoS attacks. If anything, I think this is an opportunity for Microsoft to introduce themselves to the Ruby and Rails teams, and to finally resolve the issues that stop Wind…

Reminder: That didn't stop them from converting HoTMail over to NT/Exchange.

Re: Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub

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Post by ebbv »

Clubber wrote: post #647
ebbv wrote: post #612

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What? Microsoft is the biggest developer advocate? Apple gives X Code away for free and made Swift an open source, platform agnostic product among many other things.

VS community is free, as is SQL Express. Net Core is also open source and platform agnostic.

X Code is not a watered down version of something else. It’s the full application Apple uses themselves.

Re: Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub

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Post by ebbv »

curiousgal wrote: post #630
ebbv wrote: post #612

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What? Microsoft is the biggest developer advocate? Apple gives X Code away for free and made Swift an open source, platform agnostic product among many other things.

And it also charges you 100$ a year plus half of what you earn on their app store.

That’s only for access to their store. Microsoft is much the same when it comes to the Windows store.

If you want to write apps for macOS and distribute them yourself you can do so with no cost.

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