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Re: GitHub is no longer independent at Microsoft after CEO resignation

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Post by bgwalter » Mon, Aug 11, 2025, 5:08 PM UTC

layer8 wrote: post #66

JohnTHaller wrote: post #3

GitHub will now fall under Microsoft's CoreAI team, which give some indication of GitHub's purpose and direction going forward.

Some more indication: > “Just like how Bill [Gates] had this idea of Microsoft being a bunch of software developers building a bunch of software, I want our platform, for any enterprise or any organization, to be able to be the thing they turn into their own agent factory,” said Parikh [the CoreAI team lead]. That Bill Gates analogy seems rather far-fetched, though.

And the prompt engineers running the agents will be sitting in Bangalore. Or perhaps outsourced to Infosys.

Microsoft under Gates at least produced real things. I wonder when Apple gets an Indian CEO to facilitate outsourcing.

Re: GitHub is no longer independent at Microsoft after CEO resignation

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Post by thewebguyd » Mon, Aug 11, 2025, 5:08 PM UTC

arresin wrote: post #11

Damn. I remember being heavily downvoted and flamed when I said this would be the inevitable outcome on Reddit when they were bought. Always assume anyone carrying water for a mega corp is a shill or a bot or some combo.

Same. Everyone now is like surprise pikachu face and all I can do is say "I told you so"

Never make a deal with the devil.

Re: GitHub is no longer independent at Microsoft after CEO resignation

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Post by ElijahLynn » Mon, Aug 11, 2025, 5:08 PM UTC

Eric_WVGG wrote: post #78

stogot wrote: post #75

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Heres the thing: it was a dev company with a side-AI business, but now Microsoft has signaled it wants an AI-GitHub with a dev-side business. The features that will be prioritized will be AI not Git improvement

Are there any improvements to be done to Git? It seems like kind of a solved problem, like word processors or spreadsheets… most “improvements” to those are diminishing returns. I don't mean to sounds like an MS apologist, btw. I fully predicted and hoped for an exodus from Github to GitLab or something back when it got acquired — I'm from the Microsux generation.

Do you mean git or GitHub?

Re: GitHub is no longer independent at Microsoft after CEO resignation

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Post by JCM9 » Mon, Aug 11, 2025, 5:09 PM UTC

Not surprising. The OpenAI partnership is fading. The GenAI as a product space overall is looking a bit frothy and house of cards-ish. GitHub is a strong product that is ripe for GenAI features that make it more interesting.

Like it or not this makes sense as a business move. Microsoft is positioning itself for the next phase of the current AI hype cycle where standalone AI products will struggle and the “it’s a feature not a product” phase will take hold.

Re: GitHub is no longer independent at Microsoft after CEO resignation

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Post by ElijahLynn » Mon, Aug 11, 2025, 5:09 PM UTC

reversengineer wrote: post #17

GitLab is like, really good. No need to put your codebase in the "cloud."

GitLab has a ton of options, And I find myself a bit overwhelmed by the user interface. It really needs a UX lead to simplify and create a better information architecture.

Re: GitHub is no longer independent at Microsoft after CEO resignation

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Post by jrochkind1 » Mon, Aug 11, 2025, 5:10 PM UTC

I do not think of Github as primarily an AI product or service. That Microsoft does is certainly alarming.

I still feel that there's no competitor I like as much. But that may not matter.

Re: GitHub is no longer independent at Microsoft after CEO resignation

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Post by traceroute66 » Mon, Aug 11, 2025, 5:12 PM UTC

moffkalast wrote: post #45

reversengineer wrote: post #17

GitLab is like, really good. No need to put your codebase in the "cloud."

Gitlab is like the SAP of git, something for bloated big corporations. I've never seen a single FOSS repo there.

Didn't nobody ever tell you to "never say never" ?

Knot DNS[1] good enough for you ? GPL licensed.

[1] https://gitlab.nic.cz/knot/knot-dns

Re: GitHub is no longer independent at Microsoft after CEO resignation

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Post by brightball » Mon, Aug 11, 2025, 5:14 PM UTC

pjmlp wrote: post #84

I think that just like it happened with Apple after they made it out of bankruptcy, Microsoft being the cool guys phase is slowly over. Xamarin is no more, after the whole MAUI rewrite without backwards compatibility to Xamarin.Forms, killing VS4Mac, shortly after having rewriten the underlying Xamarin based IDE into Mac, what survives is a subset of Xamarin tech for mobile and WebAssembly workloads. .NET is now cros…

I’m glad Gitlab is still an option, just sitting there waiting to absorb the market pivot if Microsoft takes it the wrong way.

Re: GitHub is no longer independent at Microsoft after CEO resignation

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Post by terminalbraid » Mon, Aug 11, 2025, 5:14 PM UTC

moffkalast wrote: post #45

reversengineer wrote: post #17

GitLab is like, really good. No need to put your codebase in the "cloud."

Gitlab is like the SAP of git, something for bloated big corporations. I've never seen a single FOSS repo there.

I don't care much for gitlab either, but for example inkscape lives there

https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape

Re: GitHub is no longer independent at Microsoft after CEO resignation

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Post by j1elo » Mon, Aug 11, 2025, 5:15 PM UTC

Eric_WVGG wrote: post #78

stogot wrote: post #75

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Heres the thing: it was a dev company with a side-AI business, but now Microsoft has signaled it wants an AI-GitHub with a dev-side business. The features that will be prioritized will be AI not Git improvement

Are there any improvements to be done to Git? It seems like kind of a solved problem, like word processors or spreadsheets… most “improvements” to those are diminishing returns. I don't mean to sounds like an MS apologist, btw. I fully predicted and hoped for an exodus from Github to GitLab or something back when it got acquired — I'm from the Microsux generation.

Fix cross-organisation "Allow edits from maintainers" #5634

https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/5634

4 years and counting...

so if you create an Organization to host your project(s), now you cannot enable that maintainers make changes on incoming Pull Requests; something that is very useful and perfectly available for projects that live under a normal username.