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"When it comes to our commitment to open source, judge us by the actions we have taken in the recent past, our actions today, and in the future." How is that patent extortion going then? Still earning you money? Any plans to stop in "the near future"? Didn't think so. I'm sure Microsoft will improve github. Just like it improved skype.
So which company would you rather buy Github? GitHub wasn't profitable. Would you rather it just disappear?
Clearly written by HMM: Human Markov Model.
They do seem to be trying to reassure people that they're not gonna mess this up: > And Microsoft is all-in on open source. We have been on a journey with open source, and today we are active in the open source ecosystem, we contribute to open source projects, and some of our most vibrant developer tools and frameworks are open source. When it comes to our commitment to open source, judge us by the actions we have ta…
Windows laptops that run Linux well enough for development. VS Code. I now develop on my PC at home using the same workflows that I use on my fancy pants work MacBook.
I have a lot of faith in this acquisition. My software team is growing fast and we have so many little problems that feel like they should be solved at the GitHub layer but the solutions aren't there. Microsoft will fix that.
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So which company would you rather buy Github? GitHub wasn't profitable. Would you rather it just disappear?
In this world we live in, not being profitable does not equate to disappearing. Also Microsoft is basically competing with the entire industry on some level, so I do not see how them buying Github could be a good thing.
As far as competing with the entire industry, everyone competes with everyone and does business with everyone....
Netflix and Amazon Video compete but Netflix hosts its entire infrastructure on AWS.
Apple and Samsung compete, they are involved with lawsuits but Apple is still one of Samsung's largest customers.
Apple and Google compete but Google pays Apple $2 billion a year to be the default search provider on iOS. Apple also reportedly uses Google Cloud Platform for some of its iCloud hosting.
Amazon and Apple compete selling media and streaming boxes but Amazon Prime is on IOS devices.
Microsoft Azure and AWS compete but it is just as easy to deploy to AWS using VSTS as it is to Azure.
Microsoft and Google work together on Angular/Typescript.
Amazon hosts Windows VMs,SqlServer RDS instances and supports VS Code.
Guess that's the very definition of finally reaching their stated goal: Developers, Developers, Developers, Developers, Developers, Developers, Developers, Developers. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33grif58qO8
Keeping in mind, of course, that Ballmer's Microsoft is very, very different from Nadella's Microsoft...
> And Microsoft is all-in on open source. We have been on a journey with open source, and today we are active in the open source ecosystem, we contribute to open source projects, and some of our most vibrant developer tools and frameworks are open source. When it comes to our commitment to open source, judge us by the actions we have taken in the recent past, our actions today, and in the future. It’s a fair point bu…
I can understand those concerns, but what can they do to convince you they have changed?
(2) Support OpenDocumentFormat in their office apps. Still remember how they corrupted the ISO certification process by creating OOXML (which is just a wrapper over binary blobs produced by MS-Office)
(3) Stop suing Android OEM's for patent licenses
The real question everyone should be asking is whether Microsoft is trustworthy, cognizant, and honorable enough to be the steward of such a major player that facilitates a large portion of open source software. This has me very concerned for the open source community.
GitHub wasn’t a non-profit. This was always the endgame for them. They were losing money to acquire a userbase that would be sold when the time is right — just like WhatsApp and numerous other big social SV plays.