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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 terandle »

sdesol wrote: post #626
_betty_ wrote: post #595

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Interestingly enough they're actively working on public vsts repositories, I thought that was devdiv trying to migrate their code back to MS land. Wonder if that's what sparked the conversations.

> Interestingly enough they're actively working on public vsts repositories Is this public knowledge? They shutdown their public repos service a while back and I had a manager at Microsoft admit that getting public repo traction was insanely hard. GitHub literally has a strangle hold on the public repos space.

This is their blog post on it

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/devops/2018/04/27/vsts-publ...

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Post by pentae »

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…

Skype wasn't ruined because they attempted to merge it into their other platforms. Skype was just flat out ruined with bloat, horribly inefficient code, turning it into a spying tool and not listening to their vocal users. Everyone was rioting after every update and it just got worse. To add insult to injury the last major update they have tried turning it into Snapchat. Their incompetence knows no bounds. If you think the same middle managers that ruined Skype aren't there anymore, you don't know how big companies like Microsoft work.

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Post by Buge »

ttyprintk wrote: post #839
TheAceOfHearts wrote: post #659

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You can easily migrate your repo to a different service, so having lots of developers rely on GitHub isn't really a big deal. Many large projects have GitHub mirrors. I'd say the biggest issue is that Git doesn't include better built-in support for issues, wikis, PRs / code reviews, and releases. Compare that to Fossil [0], which lets you bundle up everything into a single file. If there was better built-in support y…

Unless I misunderstand the need you describe, git can in fact bundle in at least two single-file formats.

Can it bundle "issues, wikis, PRs / code reviews, and releases"?

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Post by oculusthrift »

7ewis wrote: post #608

Putting aside my general dislike for Microsoft for a moment, I still believe this is bad for the tech industry. It was great having a neutral player running the site, I don't think anyone should own them. GitHub would be best as a nonprofit, though unfortunately I don't think that will ever happen. Imagine if CNN for example bought Twitter, would other news companies use Twitter still? Probably not. Will Google, Amaz…

yeah but frankly 10x of a small number is still a small number. we still have to see what the real numbers are.
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