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Re: Hello, GitHub

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Post by badminton1 »

pknopf wrote: post #43
badminton1 wrote: post #25

The main platform where open source takes place is now owned by a company that thought of open source as a form of cancer, vocally talked against it in a disrespectful manner for no reason, promoted fear/uncertainty/doubt campaigns, and even to this day continues to troll companies with patents. That is not a great place to be in. Personally, I think everyone should just move their projects somewhere else before Micr…

> thought of open source as a form of cancer, vocally talked against it Not that I deny it, because can you point me to some examples of this?

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2001/06/02/ballmer_linux_is_a_...

Steve Ballmer, Microsoft CEO said: "Linux is a cancer that attaches itself in an intellectual property sense to everything it touches"

That is a direct attack to open source licensing and open source software.

Microsoft had to take that back after they were beaten in the market and lost popularity among developers.

Now it's plan B: govern open source projects and infrastructure and put them to the service of Microsoft interests. One way of doing that could be simply mismanaging them and setting them for failure.

Re: Hello, GitHub

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Post by bitL »

"Hey everyone, I am Nat. I joined the dark side, now I am being rewarded for it as a future CEO, woohoo! I hope you are as happy as I am! See ya later!"

Many of us were given a choice to join MS but didn't.

Re: Hello, GitHub

#53

Post by pknopf »

pkfrank wrote: post #6

While the submitted link resolves: https://natfriedman.github.io/hello/ This doesn't: https://natfriedman.github.io/ Might be worth redirecting...

> https://natfriedman.github.io/hello/

Wait, is that a one-off custom landing page? Something that normal users can't do?

I don't see a "hello" repo in his list of repositories: https://natfriedman.github.io/hello/

Can private repos have publicly accessible pages?

Re: Hello, GitHub

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Post by kjksf »

notatoad wrote: post #33
ericabiz wrote: post #7

I’m going to be a bit contrarian to “the sky is falling” posts on HN and say: I think Microsoft is handling this really well. 1) They’ve acknowledged the skepticism around the acquisition. 2) They’ve expressed their commitment to keep GitHub an independent platform (like they did with LinkedIn.) 3) Nat Friedman, although I was not familiar with him prior to this, seems like an ideal candidate to run GitHub. This, ove…

>2) They’ve expressed their commitment to keep GitHub an independent platform (like they did with LinkedIn.) >3) Nat Friedman, although I was not familiar with him prior to this, seems like an ideal candidate to run GitHub. Nat seems like a decent candidate for GitHub CEO, but i'm having trouble reconciling Microsoft's commitment to keeping GitHub an independent platform with their installing a new CEO. that's not re…

The current CEO doesn't want to be a CEO. GitHub has been looking for a new CEO for the past few months.

Re: Hello, GitHub

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Post by aculver »

Honestly, can you think of a smarter move on the part of Microsoft than making Nat Friedman (a veteran of the Open Source community) CEO of Github? I completely trust this guy to do as good a job as can be done of guiding Github forward as a product and a platform, now that the venture capitalists are no longer in the picture.

Re: Hello, GitHub

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Post by michielr »

craftyguy wrote: post #34
giancarlostoro wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm glad they're doing this. If anything the only ones misbehaving are the skeptics making claims they'll likely be disproved over. Also has been noted if they had issues with this happening they should of never used GitHub to begin with. I guess devs are religious about git hosting platforms aside from text editors and programming languages.

> If anything the only ones misbehaving are the skeptics Well, it's not like the skeptics' skepticism is not unfounded. Microsoft has a long, bloody history when it comes to open source software and this "don't worry about the past, trust us, we'll be different this time" position by Microsoft isn't enough to convince us. I could be convinced, but it will take a LOT of time and good behavior by microsoft. Action spea…

> There has been nothing but words up to this point.

I get your point, but come on, there have been a lot of 'actions' over the last couple of years. This only detracts from your argument. We've had .NET Core, visual studio code, the improvements on Git, WSL and more.

Re: Hello, GitHub

#58

Post by gilrain »

peterwwillis wrote: post #40

What I really love about this is that M$ realize the product's users are tightly wound to the brand's identity, and are hostile to M$'s. They know they're buying a "lifestyle brand" and that they have to keep it hip and unencumbered by a corporate behemoth or it'll become worthless. When the new CEO has to make a public personal appeal to the users to keep them from jumping ship, that says something (though I'm not s…

> M$

Really?

Re: Hello, GitHub

#59

Post by snowwolf »

baldfat wrote: post #39
snowwolf wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I’ve seen many acquisitions commit to 2) only to slowly walk back from that “in the interests of operational efficiencies”. And next thing you know you have to change over to using a Microsoft account to log in...

What would be wrong having a Microsoft account to log in exactly? They aren't getting any more information from you then they have currently purchased. I remember when I had a YouTube account, a blogger account and a Google account and I am glad I just use one google account myself.

Because it’s an indicator of a loss of independence. And if you went through the Skype changeover you’ll know exactly what a fiasco that change to a Microsoft account was.

Re: Hello, GitHub

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Post by e1ven »

Gepsens wrote: post #37

"Linux, Git, node and Kubernetes" putting Kubernetes at the same level as Linux and Git... Not a pre-crafted commercial message from M$ at all guyze lul

Maybe it isn’t in the area you work in, but for many companies I’ve worked with, it’s a critical component.

I’d say it would probably be easier to replace git with hg or something than to pull out and redo the k8s infrastructure.

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