Phew. As a non-Microsoft user for like 15 years, I'm really happy we setup my company to host our git repos on Bitbucket from the start.
Microsoft acquires Github
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Re: Microsoft acquires Github
#142Satya Nadela's done differently to his predecessors, maybe this will go well. I understand the concern of a few companies dominating everything that we use, but time will tell.
I wonder what people would have thought if Github had just disappeared instead of selling to Microsoft? I mean I understand some concern, but this can really only be a good thing for Github in the long run. It isn't like Microsoft was producing a competitor and just bought them to kill them. Honestly, I like this better than Amazon or Google buying them.
>I wonder what people would have thought if Github had just disappeared
I would have preferred it.
Very likely their final act would have been to open source github and then we could finally get a good OOS platform that used their own issue tracker.
Atm the players are gitlab, a mess that barely works and reserves some pretty fucking basic features for enterprise, some random initials i can never remember (somebody get them a branding guy, even tom haverford would work) and closed source github.
So ya, i would have preferred if github failed.
Re: Microsoft acquires Github
#143People 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…
Yep, I really dont understand why there are Microsoft fans. Like I understand if you bought an Xbox, but I dont understand if you are a programmer. Microsoft has always been a headache. Recently its been a tiny bit better, but they still are a for-profit company that needs to continue to make a profit. This was to make Microsoft money, nothing to 'help programmers'.
Because their developer tools are pretty good and finding jobs as a .NET developer is pretty easy?
Re: Microsoft acquires Github
#144People 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…
Nokia was struggling long before Microsoft came along though. They saved it for a little bit, but there isn't much you can do with a company that got so far behind it's competitors. Samsung, HTC, Apple, Motorola, etc were all light years ahead of Nokia even before Microsoft got involved.
Funny that the things you mention all happened under Steve Ballmer too...
Re: Microsoft acquires Github
#145They 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…
It's not like they didn't do the same with Nokia, Skype, or aQuantive.
Re: Microsoft acquires Github
#146"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.
Me neither. That's the goal I suppose: should the term had a real and defined meaning, people could argument we're not in this era.
Re: Microsoft acquires Github
#147They 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…
>> Going forward, GitHub will remain an open platform, which any developer can plug into and extend. Does an “open platform” mean “open source” or “a plugin system”? I think making it open source would alleviate a lot of dev concerns.
If they meant "open source" I have to imagine they would have said so. "Remain" is the key word there. Github is already an open platform with an API and plugin system. Github is not already open source, so it can't remain so.
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#148Wonder what this will mean for other organisations and their open source projects?
For example, Google has quite a few (e.g. golang, kubernetes etc)
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#149"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.
I think the edge just means CDN edge locations. There’s been a trend towards making edge locations smarter (via Lambda etc), so you can sometimes send dynamic responses straight back from the edge, ie quicker than always deferring to the big data centre for dynamic stuff. Previously computing on the edge was restricted to fairly simple caching of static responses.
Re: Microsoft acquires Github
#150Precisely because the FOSS community is so worried about this acquisition, there is a lot to win for them, and if they manage to keep improving Github in the perception of its users, that is a trust and PR victory that would be difficult to attain otherwise, and it would help institutionalize their renewed, positive vision on open source. It can honestly go both ways.