What is wrong with Microsoft buying GitHub
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What is wrong with Microsoft buying GitHub
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Re: What is wrong with Microsoft buying GitHub
#2> I’ve deleted my GitHub account, I’ll find a way to replace it and if you’re halfway clever so should you.
So clever.
Re: What is wrong with Microsoft buying GitHub
#3On a slightly tangential note, my company has a massive Yammer install (200k+ account) and I always wonder if people can discuss in yammer group about replacing Office by G Suite, without triggering anything. This is kinda paranoid, but I am still astonished that a company can essentially put all its communications, roadmap, and so on on another company platform. Even if you do not compete frontally, at some point, there are some diverging interests.
I understand that the risk would be too big to eavesdrop on your customer, you would ruin your reputation and your product, but still, it seems the temptation even by a rogue employee could be strong.
This is not a jab at Microsoft, it would not be better if it was another mega corp platform.
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#4The idea that some companies must be forever tainted by their misdeads in the past seems odd to me.
Companies change leadership, direction and style and it seems odd to suggest that there's some underlying quality which means that, regardless of that, you can never trust them (or in reverse that you should always trust a company you once trusted)
There seems to be a trope with Microsoft that they're still the same company they were in the 90's, but the senior leadership aren't the same people and I'd imagine neither are the staff.
Is that to say that the Github acquisition will be an unalloyed good, no.
but I would say that people shouldn't automatically assume that it'll be a disaster...
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#5TLDR; the 90’s happened. Delete your github account because Microsoft is evil. I’m surprised this article got this far because it really doesn’t add anything unique to discussions that are already happening.
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#6> I’ve deleted my GitHub account, I’ll find a way to replace it and if you’re halfway clever so should you. So clever.
I like it when ppl say I'm halfway clever.
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#7The idea that some companies must be forever tainted by their misdeads in the past seems odd to me. Companies change leadership, direction and style and it seems odd to suggest that there's some underlying quality which means that, regardless of that, you can never trust them (or in reverse that you should always trust a company you once trusted) There seems to be a trope with Microsoft that they're still the same co…
> but the senior leadership aren't the same people and I'd imagine neither are the staff.
Not disagreeing with your overall point, but culture can persist through employee and leadership turnover.
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#8Some of the shenanigans I've seen recently from MS employees in the .NET Core and JS space doesn't inspire me with confidence... For all of Nadella's "turning over a new leaf", it will still take a generation to change the culture of 120 000 employees
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#9> I’ve deleted my GitHub account, I’ll find a way to replace it and if you’re halfway clever so should you. So clever.
I can't think of a worse way to get your point across.
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#10Microsoft used to be bad (M$) but if you haven't noticed you can now run Linux on Windows and sql server runs on Linux.
We're in the twilight zone bro; all bets are off.