I wonder what the reaction would have been with Apple being the acquirer. Microsoft still receives lots of hate, sometimes justified, but often just baseless. On the other hand, whenever Apple fucks devs (or users) over, they're just "protecting users" or "making business decisions". I feel there's a strong bias in the dev community.
Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub
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Re: Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub
#962Everyone is leaving this platform because Microsoft is a spyware OS (NSA OS). To be honest, they are going to put Malware tracking in your code. Something big is coming inside your machine..... Warning : stay away from any acquired platforms of Microsoft (LinkedIn (Resume tracking), github (project code tracking), Skype ( Voip tracking), etc.......). They can't innovate anymore, and the weak dev work for money instead of building the next big thing..... Anyway.... Gitlab is the answer
Re: Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub
#963Now is the time to move to Fossil https://fossil-scm.org/index.html/doc/trunk/www/index.wiki
Issue tracking & wiki built in.
You can use its git integration to ensure recruiters/employers can find you.
Re: Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub
#964A spokesman for Microsoft said "Buying GitHub was cheaper than paying for all our private repositories."
Re: Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub
#965What is Github's reason for this? I'm looking for some salient reason why they'd sell their company. Is it investor pressure or founder apathy, or ...? It seems to me like creating and running a product as admired as Github is a bigger prize than just cash in the game of life?
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Re: Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub
#966Right click and publish to Azure. For the win!!
Re: Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub
#967I was really hoping GitHub would focus on a IPO vs. acquisition. I honestly think we would be saying the same things about Google/Apple if they had decided to swoop in and make a deal here (so none of what I say is directed specifically at Microsoft).
I think the general consensus is that we want a new, independent org, that genuinely cares about OSS but has the mind to create/maintain a sustainable business model and ensure the long-term success of an OSS platforms is extremely important (and now we'll look to Gitlab and others for that).
Microsoft will, no doubt, have their fingers all over this platform in short order. It's what they're paying for; and it's an extremely smart move (EXTREMELY). Some of GitHubs product offerings have competitors within the Microsoft ecosystem already, which may spell bad times for those long-term. Atom directly competes with VSCode and it simply doesn't make sense to continue development of two, independent, IDEs. Electron utilizes Chromium under the hood, and I'd be hard pressed to thunk Microsoft wouldn't want to try and inject Edge/Chakra into that platform somehow.
It makes good business sense to consolidate efforts once a company is acquired. I give it, at most, 12-18 months before you start seeing major changes to both of those platforms that reflect Microsofts own interests.
Re: Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub
#968Earlier quoted context omitted.
The whole world's demanding it. No one really knows how to do it efficiently, it seems.
I disagree. The popularity of GitHub amongst the programming community means that ease of use / convenience is more important than the notion of “decentralization”. Otherwise, people would already be setting up their servers for hosting git repos.
That's really what I meant by efficiency. Ease of use increases that for businesses, that's the only reason they really care about ease of use of products they want to buy.