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Re: Hello, GitHub

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Post by c0smic » Mon, Jun 04, 2018, 6:53 PM UTC

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…

And now Microsoft is going to solve all those problems? This'll be interesting to see how it plays out, but all of these issues are not confidence inspiring.

Re: Hello, GitHub

#132

Post by peterwwillis » Mon, Jun 04, 2018, 6:53 PM UTC

gilrain wrote: post #58

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?

Yes, I am still at heart a poor idealistic 15 year old open source hacker with an axe to grind, g3t 0ff /\/\y 14wn

Re: Hello, GitHub

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Post by earenndil » Mon, Jun 04, 2018, 6:54 PM UTC

martinlev2 wrote: post #114

https://github.com/natfriedman 0 contribution. Sad.

To be fair, his job is ceo, not programmer.

Re: Hello, GitHub

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Post by phamilton » Mon, Jun 04, 2018, 6:54 PM UTC

zulrah wrote: post #123

dorfsmay wrote: post #108

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

It would seem Github had $7.5B at stake.

Re: Hello, GitHub

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Post by WorldMaker » Mon, Jun 04, 2018, 6:55 PM UTC

pknopf wrote: post #53

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?

Yes, private repos can have publicly accessible pages.

Re: Hello, GitHub

#136

Post by earenndil » Mon, Jun 04, 2018, 6:55 PM UTC

badminton1 wrote: post #51

pknopf wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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 pro…

It seems more an attack specifically on 'viral' licenses like the gpl than on oss in general.

Re: Hello, GitHub

#137

Post by Cofike » Mon, Jun 04, 2018, 6:56 PM UTC

BigChiefSmokem wrote: post #17

GitLab servers are very, very slow today.

Sounds like GitLab when I used it two or three years ago is the same as today. Downtime all the time where we lost access to code, slow browsing, etc.

Re: Hello, GitHub

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Post by waydowntogo » Mon, Jun 04, 2018, 6:56 PM UTC

Btw If Microsoft would mean that seriously (supporting open source) the new owner would be some foundation (something like mozilla).

Re: Hello, GitHub

#139

Post by jaltekruse » Mon, Jun 04, 2018, 6:56 PM UTC

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…

While you certainly cannot migrate the community, I recently learned how comprehensive the import tools are for gitlab. They will import PRs, wikis and a bunch of the metadata from Github and even try to link it all up to Gitlab accounts if the same public e-mail addresses are used by your contributors on the two services. No affiliation, and I don't even use the site today, but I would certainly consider recommending it to open source projects I am involved with in the future.

Re: Hello, GitHub

#140

Post by jpeg_hero » Mon, Jun 04, 2018, 6:57 PM UTC

bitL wrote: post #52

"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.

I like that there are still hardline cold warriors out there from the '90's.

I was there too, but the war is over. Come in from the cold.