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Re: Hello, GitHub

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Post by justadudeama »

da_chicken wrote: post #27
jumbopapa wrote: post #9

I understand that Microsoft has handled some software they've acquired badly (Skype), but is the Microsoft of today not vastly different from the Microsoft of that day? I don't think this will be the downward spiral that some people think it will be. Time will tell though.

My primary concern is that I worry about an inevitable merging or linking with LinkedIn. As positive as my experience has been interacting with GitHub, it's been equally as negative interacting with LinkedIn. I worry that MS will see GitHub as the code management platform, and LinkedIn as the customer management platform. It's important to me that my GitHub account and my LinkedIn account are allowed to be 100% separ…

What is so negative about LinkedIn?

Re: Hello, GitHub

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Post by [deleted] »

dorfsmay wrote: post #108
baldfat wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I really can't think of a better large tech company to buy GitHub (Which has been closed sourced since creation and I don't know why people are so scared). Now Oracle would make me put on my tin foil hat on immediately and deleting of my account.

Because people with closed source, the paying customers, now have to trust their potential biggest competitor with their source code ‽

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Re: Hello, GitHub

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Post by zulrah »

dorfsmay wrote: post #108
baldfat wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I really can't think of a better large tech company to buy GitHub (Which has been closed sourced since creation and I don't know why people are so scared). Now Oracle would make me put on my tin foil hat on immediately and deleting of my account.

Because people with closed source, the paying customers, now have to trust their potential biggest competitor with their source code ‽

So you tell that people trust private company which was loosing money since the creation better than Microsoft with all of its reputation at stake?

Re: Hello, GitHub

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Post by l5870uoo9y »

> GitHub will operate independently as a community, platform, and business.

Had Github been bought by an foundation operating outside the confides of the market, then such statement would have been believable. Microsoft will naturally use Github maximise its wealth, thus when disagreements arise then Microsoft will put its will through.

It is of course easy to imagine ways Github could be used by Microsoft, fore instance mere access to valuable user data, strategic focus on integration with Microsoft products or sigle sign on with Azure, Github, LinkedIn and Skype.

Re: Hello, GitHub

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Post by mindcrash »

I have been familiar with Miguel's work since the good old GNOME and Mono days (pre-Microsoft and even pre-Xamarin) and familiar with Miguel and Nat's work since the Xamarin and Microsoft days and I really must say that GitHub could have got somebody far far worse on the executive level than Nat (and ScottGu above him, ofcourse, due to the same kind of personality).

Nat can be best described as a OSS geek gone CEO, and thus I can't imagine a better executive within Microsoft to lead GitHub besides him. In fact, when I heard the first rumors and Chris not wanting to run operations anymore I immediately thought of Nat to run GitHub when Microsoft was crazy enough to buy it.

Seems I was right :)

Re: Hello, GitHub

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Post by pmontra »

bad_user wrote: post #13

So I’m kind of depressed about this. I loved GitHub enough that I paid for a subscription without needing it and have all of my public work on it and my investment in OSS is quite significant. People saying that it is easy to migrate don’t know what they are talking about. GitHub isn’t just Git hosting, but a social network of open source developers and projects. You can’t migrate stars, issues with comments and the…

GitHub wikis are a git repository of markdown files, easy to move. Pages are markdown too AFAIK but issues are difficult to move. That always bothered me. I've got some customers with accounts on Bitbucket and GitHub. They manage their issues there. For the others I use a self hosted Redmine server.

Re: Hello, GitHub

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Post by ggregoire »

bad_user wrote: post #13

So I’m kind of depressed about this. I loved GitHub enough that I paid for a subscription without needing it and have all of my public work on it and my investment in OSS is quite significant. People saying that it is easy to migrate don’t know what they are talking about. GitHub isn’t just Git hosting, but a social network of open source developers and projects. You can’t migrate stars, issues with comments and the…

Why would you migrate? We haven't seen anything yet.

Re: Hello, GitHub

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Post by Klathmon »

justadudeama wrote: post #101
Klathmon wrote: post #64

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I agree, my biggest concerns are: 1. What is happening to Atom? I have tried VS code and don't really like it due to the difference in how the 2 systems are designed to work (Atom being more "plugins are king", VSCode being more "kitchen sink included by first-party"). I'd hate to see my favorite editor lose it's major backing. If MS makes a commitment to continue to develop Atom, or they work with someone else to "t…

This is my thinking as well. Do I bail ship to gitlab and support more open software, or do I try to stay centralized?

Personally, I'm not "bailing" from anywhere.

I am however using this as an opportunity to rely on any one single place less.

I'm in the process of mirroring my git repos on GitLab, and trying to think of a way to signify that both the GitHub and GitLab repos are "canonical", and that issues/PRs/contributions can happen at both.

Re: Hello, GitHub

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Post by aldanor »

ggregoire wrote: post #42
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…

Yes same here. I’m really surprised by all the Microsoft hate as if we were still in the 80-90’s. MS is one of the biggest open source contributors nowadays. It's also really weird how people idealize GitHub. Did they forget GitHub was not a non-profit association, they were losing money, they deleted users repositories on their own, they had management issues, and people have been waiting some features for very long…

Remember Skype? That wasn’t in 80-90s...
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