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Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub

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Re: Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub

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Post by hnrodey »

Personally, I think this is great news given the investment Microsoft has made in hosting their open source projects on GitHub. I'm heavily invested in the Microsoft stack so I'm kind of excited to see where they take this.

Also, I'm excited because I'm in the middle of launching a product that aims to build people in to Git experts, or at the bare minimum build up your comfort level with Git to make you productive.

I'd love for you to check it out. This open source version is kind of the basis for my upcoming commercial project.

https://github.com/ryanrodemoyer/git-evangelism.

Also, let's connect if you're in the Denver area. You can find my email through my GitHub account or comment on my message.

Re: Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub

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Post by donkeyd »

EchelonFuxMe wrote: post #125
kworker wrote: post #89

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

Most of these aren't an issue if you're self-hosting in the cloud though. You can cheap VPS for a couple of $ a month.

Re: Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub

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Post by andyidsinga »

cft wrote: post #106

I doubt that Google or Amazon will use GitHub to opensource anything two years from now.

I was just thinking the same thing.

If github ends up running completely on Azure infrastructure; how likely will microsoft's competitor's be to host large projects there.

that said, I'm not sure the impact will be too negative if google or _______'s open source being on some other git-based system if it includes decent github / gitlab like collab tools.

Re: Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub

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Post by freeone3000 »

madspindel wrote: post #4

Tbh, I like this move. I hope they will merge Atom with VS Code and shutdown VSTS in favor for GitHub.

VSTS does a lot of things that GitHub does not. VSTS takes the workflow roles of Jenkins, GitHub, Jira, and has a few additional features that I don't know what open-source equivilant exists for (staged production, push to cloud - maybe done as Jenkins plugins?). It's highly unlikely VSTS will be shut down, especially in favor of a project which does very few things that VSTS does.

Re: Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub

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Post by errozero »

CM30 wrote: post #43

Oh god, I hope not. Anytime a big company acquires almost anything, the quality level drops off a cliff. Microsoft with Skype is the obvious example, but so is anything bought by Google (like YouTube). Add to this the bad experience we had with Sourceforge, and I definitely worry it could be all over for GitHub if this is true.

Google acquired Youtube so early on, how could you know what it would be like without them?

Re: Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub

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Post by hobofan »

dghughes wrote: post #73
shmerl wrote: post #2

I guess it's time to move to Gitlab.

I thought many people did after the infamous incident at Github.

I think the majority of the Github users started using the platform in the time since that, and don't even know much about Github's history.

Re: Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub

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Post by yongjik »

singularity2001 wrote: post #59
cup-of-tea wrote: post #40

Earlier 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!

Microsoft built its business by selling software products. If they had meddled with Fortune 500 companies running their business-critical information on top of Windows, Microsoft wouldn't be here now. There are situations to be wary of MS, but I don't think this is one.
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