The way GitHub is developed (remote) and culture, this is pretty much death of GitHub and if most developers leave it will become a mess quite quickly.
GitLab just got big boost.
Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub
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#122Re: Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub
#123Just when it looked like GitHub was "sustainable" through revenue ... greed for a "payout" (VCs wanting to exit the "bubble") and they sell out to the worst software Monopoly notorious for stifling software creativity through anti-competitive practices! :-(
Can't GitHub just sell stock/shares to the GitHub community to secure their own independent future? I would buy a few (thousand) shares ...
Who else would buy stock/shares if they remained independent?
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#124I'm kind of happy with this happening as it seems to me that this can cause the VCS hosting arena to diversify a little bit. The "monopoly" of github always worried me as a huge freaky single point of failure.
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#125I worry about github too. BUT, at least with github most of the data is open. And they have a worthy competitor in Gitlab. Might be a bit of disruption if MS mess things up, but not a disaster.
Why not self-hosting?
1. Electricity cost
2. Need for constant electricity
3. Internet cost
4. Need for constant Internet access
5. Cost of hardware
6. Heat generated by the running hardware
7. Noise generated by the running hardware
8. Space occupied by the hardware
9. Need to update and maintain hardware/software
10. Worse discoverability for your repos
11. ISP asking questions
12. Government asking questions
13. Police asking questions
Then again, I live in a "developing" country so most of these might not be an issue for you.
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#126Oh, fork
Re: Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub
#127I worry about github too. BUT, at least with github most of the data is open. And they have a worthy competitor in Gitlab. Might be a bit of disruption if MS mess things up, but not a disaster.
Why not self-hosting?
Its very hard to open issues or PRs etc on many self-hosted setups, as they don't have a way to create logins, or accept other identities.
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#128Why I'll never trust Microsoft ever again. "postmaster@nsa.gov" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSAKEY
I stopped trusting them when they stole the intellectual property of numerous small companies years before the _NSAKEY debacle. I know, I know, Bill Gates is supposed to be some kind of good guy now (malaria, etc.) but I can't think of any good reason to trust any robber baron, based on the past histories of robber barons. Even Andrew Carnegie was an asshole in the final analysis.
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#129Earlier quoted context omitted.
If you've used GPL then you have nothing to worry about.
80% of github projects here are hidden, inhouse trustworthy secret private projects! This is such horrible news!
So you put trustworthy, secret projects on GitHub instead of hosting them in-house?
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#130I am worried that a company as important to the open-source community as github is now owned by one of the major players. I think it really impacts the neutrality of github. If I would compete with microsoft in a certain space, I would really think twice about relying on github. Also, this monopolization is driving me mad.
the history of Microsoft is the reason why we all reacting this way. But encouraged by the move they made lately coming into Linux, even though other players have forced their hand
Microsoft has slain giants before. They will try to do it again. No one is too big to fail.