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Re: Hello, GitHub

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Post by bitL »

Klathmon wrote: post #64
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…

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…

I wouldn't be worried about Atom; half of Facebook is using it; if anything were to happen, they would fork it.

Re: Hello, GitHub

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Post by dodyg »

freedomben wrote: post #78

I recognize this isn't an opinion that will resonate with many, but I find it offensive that Github praises and benefits so much from open source, yet is not open source itself. This has bothered me for many years. Now this post from Nat, talking about how open source literally changed his life and made all things possible (which I agree with), bothers me even more. How can you say such things when your actions are s…

This is silly. They have been providing free services for open source projects. Why should they open up their source code.

Re: Hello, GitHub

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Post by icc97 »

Anybody else think that StackOverflow would be Microsoft's next purchase?

A profitable, developer focussed business built using Microsoft stack.

I don't know how much sense it makes for Microsoft to be making money through selling job ads, but if they're gonna take over all the tools that developers use then SO and the SE network seems a good fit.

Re: Hello, GitHub

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Post by TuringNYC »

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?

Is it unfair that I keep thinking of the SCO–Linux dispute at the moment?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCO%E2%80%93Linux_disputes#Mic...

Re: Hello, GitHub

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Post by dlisboa »

justadudeama wrote: post #121
da_chicken wrote: post #27

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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?

Almost everything? Aside from keeping an updated resume I've never had a single job come from it, nor anyone I know. As far as networking it's useless too. It's just recruiter spam and people you never met adding you to their network. They also did the whole MITM attack on your e-mail's contacts a few years back.

None of that is Microsoft's fault though, it's been useless for a while.

Re: Hello, GitHub

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Post by bluenose69 »

The blue banner area at the top of GH pages tells me to click on a blog posting to learn more. So I do. And then I get to a microsoft page that has as its banner area an information box telling me that merely browsing this site means that I agree to the use of cookies for analytics, personalized content and ads. Really, GH? Do you really want to direct your users to a page with that warning? Were you doing the same thing to me already, without warning? And will GH be doing similar harvesting of information?

And what about gitlab ...? Maybe they want my money more than GH does...

Re: Hello, GitHub

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Post by fosco »

aldanor wrote: post #130
ggregoire wrote: post #42

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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...

personally, I really like the performance of 'skype for business' but maybe I am in the minority there.

all of the tools and integration with outlook is pretty smooth...

Re: Hello, GitHub

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Post by chillingeffect »

The emphasis I've seen on "still be able to code in your choice of language," leads me to think there will be some caveat to doing so. E.g. they'll put the windows ad spyware into peoples' code repositories like sourceforge or something else...
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