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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 Systemic33 »

sytse wrote: post #651
youseecomrade wrote: post #305

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think the network effect is too great to ignore. I would guess the number of potential contributors you get just by using GitHub, where many people have an account and know the workflow/UI, is bigger than any other place. 5 years from now when GitLab is acquired by Google we'll have to migrate again.

Or export you projects to someone else running GitLab. All the functionality to run a forge in GitLab is open source and export/import is open source as well.

Same can be said of Android, but most simply people don't.

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Post by ebcode »

habitue wrote: post #671
jabits wrote: post #655

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"because Github was a neutral third-party without any priorities"...what are you talking about? They are a company with a purpose to make money. And when I think about some of the other possible buyers, I am fine with Microsoft.

The GP means they were neutral with respect to the tech giants' ecosystems. They didn't favor Amazon or Microsoft or Google's tech. Consider that Apple, Google, and Microsoft all had GitHub organizations and hosted code there. That's what they're talking about

yeah, I'm curious if those other big companies will now move their repos off of GitHub because of this. I guess these two will be the ones to watch: https://github.com/google https://github.com/apple

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Post by _emacsomancer_ »

miguelrochefort wrote: post #373
indigochill wrote: post #339

Heck, I already prefer Gitlab and/or Bitbucket because they let me run free (or at least self-hosted in Gitlab's case, not sure what their hosted option's like) private repos. Github's just got the mindshare going for it. But maybe now that'll change.

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

They do have free private repos for academic researchers already.

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Post by eric-hu »

djsumdog wrote: post #764
x3haloed wrote: post #614

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

I'm starting to get really frustrated with Atom and it pegging my CPUs at 100%. I honestly don't see VSCode as that much better considering they're both bloated electron apps. I've started going back to Sublime, and found I missed some of the really helpful tools in Atom. I think the entire atom/vscode thing is going to be really curious should this acquisition go through. I'm going to guess they're going to keep run…

I switched to VSCode from MacVim. Up until I saw VSCode, I thought all electron apps were as bad as slack. I'm happy to report I've not experienced sluggishness from VSCode at all.

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Post by itomato »

closeparen wrote: post #371
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…

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.

I have lived and worked in SV for a decade, and still don't know a single "Silicon Valley hipster" developing with WSL or VS Code.

I do know the power of analytics and control over prominent backend systems, and the allure of being "gatekeeper" with the power to extract value from integrations.

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Post by noah-kun »

tome wrote: post #253
flocial wrote: post #146

If this goes through Microsoft basically gets access to all the private proprietary code of so many companies. I would have never expected Github founders to even entertain the notion. I guess times change.

Microsoft has access to the running systems of so many companies.

Notably Google banned Windows years ago and every startup I know is 99.9% Mac.

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Post by goffi »

For people looking for alternatives, I've started to write code forge tools in Salut à Toi (on top of XMPP).

It's decentralized, already working (tickets and merge requests), based on standards, and written in a popular language (python), help would be more than welcome!

It is also agnostic of the tools, I'm using it with Mercurial, but Git implementation will of course follow.

You'll find details and a demo at https://www.goffi.org/b/9555cc02-6a87-4b6b-af85-20f1c0736722...

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