Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub • Hacker News Board

Re: Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub

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Post by yuhong » Mon, Jun 04, 2018, 6:49 AM UTC

pentae wrote: post #842

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 thi…

I wonder if pre-acquisition Skype was one of the hardest software the Windows team had to deal with. For example, at one point they used SYSENTER directly to make system calls!

Re: Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub

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Post by vmhy » Mon, Jun 04, 2018, 6:53 AM UTC

This is the way the world ends This is the way the world ends This is the way the world ends Not with a bang but a whimper.

Re: Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub

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Post by rhblake » Mon, Jun 04, 2018, 7:00 AM UTC

leothekim wrote: post #789

I'm probably being silly, but it is ironic to me that Microsoft will own the service that hosts the Linux codebase.

That's just a mirror. https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/lin... is where it's at.

Re: Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub

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Post by carlchenet » Mon, Jun 04, 2018, 7:04 AM UTC

Some years ago I wrote "The Github Threat" https://carlchenet.com/the-github-threat/ and I'll be delighted to update the conclusion with this quite predictable and logical outcome.

Re: Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub

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Post by lioeters » Mon, Jun 04, 2018, 7:06 AM UTC

This the end of an era. GitLab, BitBucket, self-hosted options, here we come!

Re: Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub

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Post by JepZ » Mon, Jun 04, 2018, 7:08 AM UTC

Lets just hope Microsoft has learnt how they tend to kill good products by merging them into their ecosystem and won't do that.

If Microsoft honestly wants to improve GitHub, they should ask the community first.

Re: Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub

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Post by innocentoldguy » Mon, Jun 04, 2018, 7:12 AM UTC

Dammit!!!

Re: Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub

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Post by nkkollaw » Mon, Jun 04, 2018, 7:12 AM UTC

I wonder what will happen to Atom, considering that Microsoft makes VS Code..?

Re: Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub

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Post by bigbugbag » Mon, Jun 04, 2018, 7:17 AM UTC

Great news ! Maybe now people will understand why github was the wrong was to do things.

Using a designed to be decentralized development tool and flocking all in one place, centralizing free software development on proprietary centralized platform is the epitome of not doing things the way they should.

Hopefully people will catch the difference between opensource which microsoft is surfing on in a PR effort to regain prestige and free software which is a nemesis of microsoft.

Now let's see projects scramble to find another centralized place to migrate to in order to keep doing things wrong, and see which ones do not care enough to even do this.

Re: Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub

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Post by atesti » Mon, Jun 04, 2018, 7:19 AM UTC

I consider this a huge waste of money on Microsoft's part.

Why did they create and then shutter codeplex in the first place? Why can't we have multiple competing platforms (Google Code, Github, Codeplex, Sourceforge, bitbucket, etc.)?

If I were Microsoft I'd rather invest a smaller amount of money (it surely is much cheaper than acquiring Github!) into making Codeplex the best platform.

And then I'd just do a traditional way of forcing people a bit: Why did Microsoft put their software on Github, a competitor? Why not force people a little bit into your ecosystem? Why give up the fight for winner takes it all every single time??? If I were Microsoft I were a bit more proud to use Codeplex, Windows phones, Windows instead of Mac, etc...

Why shutter MSN messenger for Skype? Why making apps for iphone first before Windows phone? Why does Microsoft not simply fund their projects (Windows Mobile had a head start and was abandoned, tablet PCs were already there with XP) and try to compete and create an ecosystem full of solutions working together?

Of course it's kind of nice to see Microsoft embracing github and being more open etc. But where's the fight? Why give up all the time?

Why letting codeplex die when all we need is a bit competititon.