Good. Can we make a distributed GitHub now please?
Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub
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Re: Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub
#252Just 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 sto…
> they sell out to the worst software Monopoly notorious for stifling software creativity through anti-competitive practices!
Right? It's like your wife leaving you for your high school bully.
Re: Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub
#253If this goes through Microsoft basically gets access to all the private proprietary code of so many companies. I would have never expected Github founders to even entertain the notion. I guess times change.
Microsoft has access to the running systems of so many companies.
Re: Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub
#254Hey, GitLab, if you want to push a big migration from GitHub, inundate the GitHub design team with requests for a ribbon UI on github.com and to move the subscription system to Office 365.
We'll not spam GitHub. But we see people #movingtogitlab
Honestly, the draw for Github is the volume of direct integrations that are out there. Soon as Gitlab catches up there it will be a quicker decision.
Re: Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub
#255I 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?
People want the nice UI of Github as opposed to just a hosted .git folder, and self-hosting Gitlab is a hassle compared to using a SaaS.
Re: Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub
#256Why I'll never trust Microsoft ever again. "postmaster@nsa.gov" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSAKEY
Don't forget about: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguis...
Microsoft is basically the corporate version of the ship of Theseus at this point. The have a lot of questionable stuff in their history, but the leadership and the culture at large has shifted drastically since those days. At a certain point it is worth reevaluating one's opinions and question whether it is still worth hanging on to those old grudges.
I can certainly understand why people might be skeptical of GitHub being purchased by any of the big players in tech. But I don't see how Microsoft is really a worse buyer than any of the other potential bidders.
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#257I don't understand how GitHub has been unable to become profitable. Anyone know more and want to share some details?
The weird part is that they were actually profitable before they started taking funding. [1][2]
[1]: https://signalvnoise.com/posts/2486-bootstrapped-profitable-... [2]: https://a16z.com/2012/07/09/software-eats-software-developme...
Re: Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub
#258/me moves to GitLab
Re: Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub
#259This is a completely smart purchase on Microsoft's part. I can't imagine more synergy between two companies:
- Microsoft has always been the largest developer advocate of any of the major tech players (Google has been a great contender for this position since 2010).
- Microsoft has moved most of their open source projects to Github.
- Microsoft is a major contributor to Git, including massive infrastructure projects to make it possible to host the NT kernel on Git.
- Microsoft has tried to do open source git hosting in the past (Codeplex?) but it never succeeded. Also: Microsoft partnered with Github when they shut down to migrate Codeplex projects to Github.
- Github has the Atom team, which would have some great synergies to combine with the VSCode team.
- Github are the champions behind the electron project, with a lot of institutional knowledge about that technology + native web apps/PWAs in general. Microsoft is making a huge push toward writing UWP apps as PWAs.
Time will tell how they handle this merger. They've handled a few pretty well (Linkedin, Mojang come to mind) and others horribly (Skype, Yammer, Nokia).
Re: Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub
#260To everyone switching to GitLab or considering it: Theres a feature on GitLab where you can import all your GitHub repos in on go. Or you can do it one by one if you want.