Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub • Hacker News Board

Re: Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub

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Post by earenndil » Sun, Jun 03, 2018, 8:54 PM UTC

justincormack wrote: post #127

kworker wrote: post #89

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

You can run gogs/gitea and get that basically 'for free'.

Re: Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub

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Post by sytse » Sun, Jun 03, 2018, 8:54 PM UTC

greenhatman wrote: post #181

I bet GitLab is getting infrastructure ready in anticipation of the exodus.

We're starting to scale up as I type this #movingtogitlab

Re: Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub

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Post by oaiey » Sun, Jun 03, 2018, 8:55 PM UTC

Angostura wrote: post #32

Personally, I can't wait for GitHub360 Professional for Sharepoint 360.

Finally someone with the right attitude. I am waiting for a change in the URL ... https://GitHub.NET

Re: Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub

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Post by vezycash » Sun, Jun 03, 2018, 8:55 PM UTC

ggregoire wrote: post #62

GitHub became too expensive. I’m curious to see the new pricing model.

Look at Amazon Prime. For ONLY $99 free video, deals, free shipping, and many more.

This purchase is about increasing 365 value. They'll make the pro version free with office 356 subscription.

Re: Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub

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Post by bauerd » Sun, Jun 03, 2018, 8:55 PM UTC

scarface74 wrote: post #174

Microsoft's own hosted platform Visual Studio Team Services is nuetral. It supports hosted and on prem build and deployment agents for Windows, Linux, Android, and iOS. There are easy to use plug ins for building and deploying on both Azure and AWS. You can use Github now for hosted git repositories in VSTS and still use Microsoft's other build and release tools. Thier Wiki is Markdown based and they have a very visi…

I think you ascribe different meaning to "neutral" than most others here

Re: Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub

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Post by discordance » Sun, Jun 03, 2018, 8:55 PM UTC

Can't help but notice the announcement aligns with Apple's WWDC this week. Wonder it'll take a bite out of Apple's PR.

Re: Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub

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Post by nyxtom » Sun, Jun 03, 2018, 8:55 PM UTC

It's interesting that the HN community continues to make reference to the prospect of a decentralized internet when Git was built to be decentralized in the first place. In spite of this, we all have congregated around GitHub for the community and are shocked when the centralized source we've been using gets acquired by a company we don't trust. That's sort of the whole point of centralization, you can't trust it. Maybe this event will finally shift things back into a decentralized direction.

Re: Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub

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Post by siruncledrew » Sun, Jun 03, 2018, 8:55 PM UTC

This is pretty conflicting. Github is nice on its own, but business wise they haven’t been profitable, so sooner or later some change had to happen. In my experience, Github is great for public code storage and small private projects (easy to manage developers that already have github accounts), but it does become pretty expensive and I don’t necessarily think the ROI is worth it compared to a self-hosted solution. For opensource and personal portfolios, the “network effect” or first mover advantage sort of set the stage for github’s popularity over gitlab, but for a paid enterprise solution I think gitlab does a better job and offers more value per dollar. Partially what sucks is having to have separate github/gitlab accounts/repositories since that’s now 2 things to manage. I’ve tried codecommit and bitbucket as well, but those were kinda meh (in my opinion).

Typically when “the Microsoft touch” is added it’s for the worse, so the expectations bar is pretty low. But who knows. I can definitely see them leveraging github to further go after AWS by giving Azure a leg up over codecommit. VSCode has also been pretty good, if they add in the “social integrations” of github to VSCode that also competes against Cloud9 on AWS. Right now AWS is solidly winning the cloud race, but if this puts price/service competitive pressure on amazon I won’t complain.

I also wonder what will happen with all the code and personal data from github. I really don’t want to have to make a microsoft account to access github. As long as the switching costs from github to a viable alternative (right now gitlab) remain low, I would not have a problem with jumping ship.

Re: Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub

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Post by sureaboutthis » Sun, Jun 03, 2018, 8:55 PM UTC

greenhatman wrote: post #181

I bet GitLab is getting infrastructure ready in anticipation of the exodus.

The exodus began a number of days ago when this was just a rumor.

Re: Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub

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Post by grzm » Sun, Jun 03, 2018, 8:55 PM UTC

sytse wrote: post #192

greenhatman wrote: post #181

I bet GitLab is getting infrastructure ready in anticipation of the exodus.

We're starting to scale up as I type this #movingtogitlab

I’m happy there are alternatives. But can you please leave the hashtag campaign for Twitter? This is your third such comment in minutes.