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Microsoft and GitHub have held acquisition talks

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Re: Microsoft and GitHub have held acquisition talks

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Post by hedora »

ASalazarMX wrote: post #97

This has me wondering, what Microsoft wants GitHub for? It's not like they can't use it without owning it, and I doubt they want to improve it as it is. Probably they want control before integrating it with their products.

They want to join the social networking data with linkedin and office 365, yammer, enterprise Skype, etc, etc.

They have a clear long-term strategy of owning professional social networks, both within and across companies.

That way they can sell you access to your professional network, and your employer access to info you don’t even realize exists about you, and also sell it insights into its own org structure.

GitHub would just be another piece of the puzzle.

Re: Microsoft and GitHub have held acquisition talks

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Post by earenndil »

discordance wrote: post #328
ianwalter wrote: post #318

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Apple. I know it's not Apple's style but imagine if Apple started expanding outside of it's bubble like Microsoft has. If they really went all in it would be amazing.

I would prefer if Apple would continue to focus on making my phone better. They really slipped up with their QA on recent iOS releases.

Apple has enough money that they could easily make your phone better and develop github and do eight other things.

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Post by geokon »

Does anyone have insight into what they're been working on recently at Github? I feel like the user experience hasn't changed/improved in the last couple of years at all. It feels to me like there is a lot of low hanging fruit to make a ton of money. For one they could integrate or replicate the functionality of Bountysource and let people donate to users. There is also tons of room for improvement in licensing like making copywriter-assignment frictionless and letting people dual license their software (so I could at a click of a button buy a proprietary license for someone's GPL'd library)

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Post by hyperpallium »

AgentK20 wrote: post #6

Really hope these talks fall through and nothing comes of it. Too many bad experiences with Microsoft buying something out, mismanaging it, and it goes down the drain. As much as I love GitHub, I won't be using a Microsoft-owned GitHub for any of my company's work.

Isn't minecraft ok, under the new Microsoft?

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Post by 8_hours_ago »

Alupis wrote: post #344
sker wrote: post #212

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Plus I'm sure under Microsoft they will have some sort of free private repos like GitLab, Bitbucket and Visual Studio Team Services already do. Lack of free private repos is the main (only) reason why I don't use GitHub.

When did you last look at GitHub? They've had free private repos for well over a year (maybe longer). I have ~50 private on my account... Embarrassingly bad half-completed side projects mostly.

Huh? Not that I see. Private repos require a paid plan.

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Post by avinium »

OkGoDoIt wrote: post #362
singingfish wrote: post #287

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I was at a container orchestration conference the other day, and got the distinct impression that microsoft are not the great satan, and azure is probably a really good choice for cloud service. I can't believe I'm saying that. I'm having dinner with a prolific debian maintainer tonight, maybe he'll beat some sense into me.

I agree in theory, but have you ever actually tried to use Azure? The management interface is ridiculously overcomplicated. It feels very “Microsofty”

I do, and while it's not perfect, I find it fairly serviceable.

AWS, on the other hand, I found an absolute nightmare (though to be fair, I haven't touched it in 2 years).

Re: Microsoft and GitHub have held acquisition talks

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Post by arnvald »

p1esk wrote: post #311
sametmax wrote: post #52

The ghost of the skype acquisition would make me panic.

Why? I've been using Skype as my main video/text chat app since ~2002. It hasn't changed much after the acquisition.

Have you checked the mobile client? The last 2 features I've noticed on Skype for iOS are:

* colors - you can change your Skype colors from blue to red or green

* stories - follow your friends just like on Instagram or Snapchat

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