Grounds for flagging? Genuinely curious to know. @dang
Nothing particularly interesting or new in the article, flamewarly.
So long GitHub and thanks for all the fish
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Re: So long GitHub and thanks for all the fish
#22I disagree. "it will probably take Microsoft at least a year before they can start squeezing" you could squeeze Github with a streamroller and still never see over seven and a half billion dollars of profit out of it. If you think Microsoft bought this because they want Github alone to make this money back in any sane time frame then you utterly deluded. > Microsoft never was and never will be trustworthy. Replacing…
Microsoft made seven billion dollars by issuing new stocks prior to the purchase. Github was basically free for them.
Re: So long GitHub and thanks for all the fish
#23I don’t get the Microsoft hate, it feels immature, like teenage rage. Life’s pretty good if all you have to get really mad about is Microsoft buying github.
Someone's got to bring the rage. These teenagers today have been made docile by the software and devices created by the likes of MS, so us Gen X curmudgeons need to pick up the slack, just like we do for everything else they should be responsible for. *I originally typed that jokingly playing the role of a stereotypical Gen Xer. When I took off my stage costume, I realized I was wearing the same outfit underneath. ./…
I think the part of the M$ rage that feels reactionary and knee jerky is simply that it's so trivial to leave github behind for any of the 2-3 comparable competitors. It takes what, 5 minutes?
What's really at stake here for anyone but actual enterprise customers?
PS - > When I took off my stage costume, I realized I was wearing the same outfit underneath.
That's a beautiful sentence. It deservers to be the last sentence in the kind of book they make you read in high school.
Re: So long GitHub and thanks for all the fish
#24I don’t get the Microsoft hate, it feels immature, like teenage rage. Life’s pretty good if all you have to get really mad about is Microsoft buying github.
It seems pretty appropriate, really, given Microsoft's long and sordid track record.
If they manage not to wreck the place for, say, 5 years, I'll be tempted to give them the benefit of the doubt.
Tempted.