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GitHub was a bad solution for FLOSS projects already, it just became so much clearer now.
MS is the biggest contributor on GitHub, and VSCode/TypeScript are exemplary pieces of open source projects.
Maybe we should wait and see before bashing MS and migrating everything on another centralized for-profit platform?
I still have bad memories of those two from time when Windows 8 was released. Immediately before the release, arstechnica instituted down-voting. Then, upon release there were a flurry of articles (Mostly from Bright) talking about how great Windows 8 was, what a game changer etc. etc. In the comments anyone questioning the validity of that view was downvoted out of site.
Generally I have always hated the argument that anyone opposed to anything needs to have a better solution before their opinion is valid and will be taken into account. Sometimes it's clear how a particular solution is negative but beyond that we don't have the breath or depth of knowledge to suggest the alternative or it is not our job to spend the time to come up with one. Yet we may have enough experience in a par…
Microsoft buying them doesn't even solve the problem that they're not financially viable right now. Unless cutting HR and other support roles is enough to bump them to profitability, but I doubt it.
At this point it's too late, though, because this sale is a direct consequence of them taking VC funding a few years back. How was a website for hosting source code ever going to satisfy venture capitalists looking for a big pay out?
"You can't complain until you provide something better" is one of the oldest bullshit arguments in the book. If I go to a doctor with an ailment, or the Agora with a public grievance, the notion of admitting and communicating that there's a problem is an essential step. Identifying etiologies, goals, and solutions ("getting there from here") are also necessary, but independent steps that need not be initiated or acco…
Beyond that though, the article encourages and exemplifies the most blatant form of armchair CEO-ing.
The tech press has gleaned clicks from their fawning yet resigned corporate strategy fantasies for so long that now their headlines straight up demand that mentality from their readers.
GitHub was a bad solution for FLOSS projects already, it just became so much clearer now.
I always thought people posting content on Tumblr/Medium/WordPress were making a mistake, that they were getting very little in return for their work. It's starting to become clear that hosting your project on someone else's servers has many of the same issues.
Putting your project on github is the best way to ensure that you have the largest possible number of eyes on it. And if something better comes along, you can always copy your repo there. I don't see what you lose by hosting on github.