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Re: Microsoft acquires Github

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Post by swebs »

heckanoobs wrote: post #45

I'm excited by this. I feel trapped between Google who will give everything away in exchange for spying on me, and Apple who will respect my privacy but shake me upside down with the most ridiculous vendor lock-in tactics. I'm glad someone as powerful as Microsoft can play the underdog role and provide a viable third alternative. Windows laptops that run Linux well enough for development. VS Code. I now develop on my…

>I feel trapped between Google who will give everything away in exchange for spying on me, and Apple who will respect my privacy but shake me upside down with the most ridiculous vendor lock-in tactics. I'm glad someone as powerful as Microsoft can play the underdog role and provide a viable third alternative.

A third alternative of spying on you while also engaging in ridiculous vendor lock-in tactics? Microsoft is the worst of both worlds.

Re: Microsoft acquires Github

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Post by mtgx »

ksec wrote: post #108

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…

When Microsoft sets it mind on buying a company, they're willing to pay almost anything. Remember when they wanted to pay $45 billion for Yahoo only a decade ago?

Companies that are exploring the option of selling to Microsoft know this quite well, and they exploit it to the fullest.

Re: Microsoft acquires Github

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Post by AsyncAwait »

SSLy wrote: post #118
distances wrote: post #109

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> 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.

Nokia engineers wanted to move to Android, but the M̶S̶ ̶M̶o̶l̶e̶ then current CEO made a prikaz to go with Windows Phone.

> prikaz

diktat just for those wondering

Re: Microsoft acquires Github

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Post by nileshtrivedi »

Totoradio wrote: post #103
nileshtrivedi wrote: post #48

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(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?

Yes, their implementation is (deliberately?) patchy with many bugs. They've been lobbying to prevent governments from adopting ODF (an open ISO standard with multiple implementations): https://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/02/22/microsoft_uk_odf_re...

Re: Microsoft acquires Github

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Post by acou_nPlusOne_t »

mkirklions wrote: post #128
distances wrote: post #109

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> 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.

I dont like Microsoft, but I'm not sure how they killed skype. Yes there were a few dark years, but I think most IM was struggling years ago. Now skype is pretty good.

Yes, those where dark years, when they shot people in the streets- but at least we had meat in those years.

Re: Microsoft acquires Github

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Post by atonse »

TheCondor wrote: post #73
atonse wrote: post #12

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I’m so tired of this trope. It’s like nothing Microsoft does is ever enough for people to realize that there is enough new leadership that isn’t doing this nonsense. Is there any evidence in the Nadella years of MS doing this in the way they used to do this in the 90s?

So a new CEO and the established culture just automatically changes? It’s not just that MSFT did what they did, but they established a culture that was cool with it and even came up with the ideas. How do we know they are no longer doing that? It’s not like they openly admitted to what they did in the 1990s...

They’ve open sourced so many of their Crown Jewels, put SQL server on Linux. I mean this stuff gets at the core and soul of what was Microsoft.

The burden of proof is in the accusers that claim they haven’t changed a bit. Where’s the proof that they’re the same Microsoft?

Re: Microsoft acquires Github

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Post by mtgx »

unictek wrote: post #65

It's a global step backward for Open Source Software. Microsoft was always hated because of their closed source software and now they hold the principal Open Source bastion. Github helped so many Open Source Developers get their projects out of shadow, thanks to the "star" system, news feed... and sometimes this could change a life (like me that created a startup on top of an open source project that became successfu…

Open source projects should move away from GitHub immediately. I'll consider it a con for any company that keeps its code on GitHub going forward.
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