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Microsoft acquires Github

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Re: Microsoft acquires Github

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Post by pavel_lishin »

crazygringo wrote: post #36
codetrotter wrote: post #15

> 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…

Corporations aren't people. If you change the leadership and change employee incentives, it might as well be a different company. Sure there's cultural inertia... but incentives trump culture every time.

> If you change the leadership and change employee incentives, it might as well be a different company.

Exactly. Which is why the idea of "trusting" a corporation, or treating them like you would a human being on any level, is ludicrous. They're a plane crash and a stock dip from becoming a totally different entity.

Re: Microsoft acquires Github

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Post by naiyt »

titanix2 wrote: post #43

"Cloud blablabla committed blablabla responsability blablabla developers blablabla empower blablabla open-source" Clearly written by HMM: Human Markov Model.

> The era of the intelligent cloud and intelligent edge is upon us.

I still have no idea what "intelligent edge" is supposed to mean.

Re: Microsoft acquires Github

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Post by Totoradio »

nileshtrivedi wrote: post #48
Totoradio wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I can understand those concerns, but what can they do to convince you they have changed?

(1) Make it easy for alternative OS to run on Surface/Windows-certified devices: Both x86 and ARM. (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

About your second point, I just tested it on my machine, Word 2016 saves and opens *.odt files just fine. Is there some unsupported stuff?

Re: Microsoft acquires Github

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Post by gbil »

As an engineer I'm a bit puzzled that github was valuated 3 times less than linkedin.

Yet I haven't done any real analysis, neither I know if business data of X individuals is valued more than hosting Y projects, probably from an ad + data gathering perspective it makes some sense but still I'd love to hear a more in depth analysis on this

Re: Microsoft acquires Github

#105

Post by johnnyfaehell »

bad_user wrote: post #32

People keep mentioning how "Microsoft changed" due to VS Code, the Linux subsystem, .NET Core. I say that they are the same company, only with different cash cows. Haven't they spied on Windows 10 users? Do they not engage in patents racketeering? Haven't they killed Nokia and ruined Skype? " But Mom, some of the other companies are doing it too ", well yeah, but some of us don't have double standards, in spite of wh…

Killed Nokia?

Nokia is still alive. But it's not like it was doing well before Microsoft bought them.

Re: Microsoft acquires Github

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Post by Arnt »

I reported a bug in a Microsoft product earlier this year, one whose only effect was to complicate interop with a minor opensource competitor.

They handled that fairly, promptly and well. Microsoft isn't the same company as ten and twenty years ago.

Re: Microsoft acquires Github

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Post by ksec »

GitHub - $160M Recurring Revenue in 2016... sometimes I am amazed how they got to the $7.5B figures.

I wonder what happen to Atom Editor. Although I think most are using Visual Studio Code anyway, so may be it make sense to marge the man power.

I wonder if they would make Coding ( Visual Studio Code ), Code Hosting ( GitHub ), Deploy ( Azure ) all seamless.

Surely now Microsoft has the incentive to make Ruby Rails a first class Citizen on Windows?

At this rate, I wouldn't be surprise in 10 years time Microsoft open sources its Windows Kernel.

Re: Microsoft acquires Github

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Post by distances »

bad_user wrote: post #32

People keep mentioning how "Microsoft changed" due to VS Code, the Linux subsystem, .NET Core. I say that they are the same company, only with different cash cows. Haven't they spied on Windows 10 users? Do they not engage in patents racketeering? Haven't they killed Nokia and ruined Skype? " But Mom, some of the other companies are doing it too ", well yeah, but some of us don't have double standards, in spite of wh…

> Haven't they spied on Windows 10 users? Do they not engage in patents racketeering? Have they not killed Nokia or ruined Skype?

I don't think one can say they killed Nokia. Nokia's phone business was basically doomed after Android gained traction, and Microsoft just helped the company to pivot by overpaying for that part of the business, while leaving Nokia with everything that actually was making money.

Re: Microsoft acquires Github

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Post by pjmlp »

c3833174 wrote: post #87
fredley wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Microsoft has been setting a very (almost unthinkably) different course since Ballmer departed. Bash on Windows, Visual Studio Code, as well as other seemingly genuine commitments to open source. It's wonderful that competitors like GitLab exist, and today is probably a great day for them, but I'm willing to give Microsoft the benefit of the doubt on this one - we won't be moving.

Meanwhile the rent-seeking on FAT patents continues

Intel and IBM also have their own share of not so FOSS friendly actions, yet devs keep embracing them.
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