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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 oaiey »

deedubaya wrote: post #23
tomovo wrote: post #7

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At first they will just inject random commits that don't change any files but inform you about the latest price offerings on One Drive and Azure hosting. Later on if you're still on the "free" plan some of the commits will modify your hosted software to show their ads at runtime. Have fun!

This comment made me giggle at first, but then the truth hidden in the outlandish idea hit home and I cried a little bit.

They are not that foolish. The only company that stupid was the one behind sourceforge.

Re: Microsoft and GitHub have held acquisition talks

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Post by oaiey »

wooter wrote: post #222
dudus wrote: post #122

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I have the opposite opinion. I think every few months I see an interesting feature being added that are slowly making github a better platform. Just for the last few months we've seen a lot of improvements for Enterprise, improvement to gitHub pages, saved replies, team discussions, security alerts. I love the pace they have to release meaningful improvements.

i'm also a big fan of the atom editor

Oh snap. Atom would be killed of. No business can afford developing two same products.

Re: Microsoft and GitHub have held acquisition talks

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Post by pritambaral »

mwj wrote: post #444
yani wrote: post #439

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GitHub clearly needs change of management. I havent seen much inmovation from them compared to GitLab. Microsoft is very strong on innovation since change of management.

Depends what you like. I prefer my Git hosting suppliers to have better than 50% uptime.

User of both GitLab and GitHub here. GitHub also goes down.

Re: Microsoft and GitHub have held acquisition talks

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Post by oaiey »

rrcaptain wrote: post #228

Not too keen on GitHub being acquired. If Microsoft wants to do something good here, they should give GitHub enough money to form a Foundation similar to Mozilla. That would be the best way GitHub could pursue its mission.

That also crossed my mind. But they have shareholders.

Re: Microsoft and GitHub have held acquisition talks

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Post by pritambaral »

yani wrote: post #441
bad_user wrote: post #436

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How is Microsoft different exactly? Do they not engage in patents racketeering? Do they not spy on users of Windows 10? > like most (all?) other big tech companies "The other children are doing it" and then you're mother would say "that doesn't make it right". It's a child's defense no doubt. But anyway, it's also factually not true.

I reviewed the data that Microsoft has on me and there is nothing in there that makes me feel uncomfortable. Facebook on the other hand.. not only is the data wrong but if it gets public I can see it damaging me

I just want to point out, aside from the discussion, that Microsoft owns a significant stake in Facebook.

Re: Microsoft and GitHub have held acquisition talks

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Post by oaiey »

mimiflynn wrote: post #126

I wonder how projects like Electron are figuring into the interest that Microsoft has in GitHub. How would Microsoft move forward with such a project if they bought GitHub? Would its continue to be based on Chromium? Would future versions of Office follow VSCode and be build as Electron apps?

Electron is save. VS Code needs it. Atom however does not look that good.

Re: Microsoft and GitHub have held acquisition talks

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Post by Maarten88 »

giancarlostoro wrote: post #280
philipov wrote: post #113

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Windows 10's forced updates and telemetry say otherwise.

Microsoft is a big company, that's a different team with a different set of leadership. The guy in charge of Windows stepped away. Windows 10 is the last version of Windows basically. Not sure if that means someday they may release a distro (crazy I know) but it's interesting nonetheless.

You are behind on the crazy: they already announced their first Linux distro, it's called Azure Sphere OS and intended for secure/maintained IoT.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/04/microsofts-bid-to-se...

Re: Microsoft and GitHub have held acquisition talks

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Post by gurkendoktor »

SanDimasFootbal wrote: post #317
prepend wrote: post #315

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I don’t know, isn’t Microsoft the only software company left? I love Google, but they sell ads, their mission isn’t to make software. Microsoft is more and more cloud and services, but they still have a developer mentality and they have done some good stuff with open source lately. If someone is going to buy Github, Microsoft is probably the most friendly to developers. Unless Google or Facebook wants to go full altr…

Atlassian is very much a Software Company.

I'm only a relatively casual user, but doesn't Atlassian mostly buy and then manage existing software products? They didn't develop Trello, HipChat, Bitbucket etc.

Every time I run into an issue with Atlassian software, I find a JIRA ticket from 7 years ago. If they have a capable dev team, it's probably working on projects off my radar?

Re: Microsoft and GitHub have held acquisition talks

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Post by Maarten88 »

gsich wrote: post #286
philipov wrote: post #283

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I wouldn't mind forced updates if they were only used for critical security updates. They are not; Microsoft abuses the privilege, and therefore may not be trusted to have it at all.

Feature updates can be delayed for up to a year.

On Pro and up. Not on Home.

Re: Microsoft and GitHub have held acquisition talks

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Post by gurkendoktor »

yani wrote: post #440
e40 wrote: post #343

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Yeah, I agree. I would immediately delete my github account if this happened. I don't buy that MS has seen the light and is a different company now. In the last 2 weeks, 3 people have told me their Windows 10 install updated itself and was completely borked. At least one of these people are going out and buying a new Windows machine as a result (thus giving MS a little more revenue). It absolutely disgusts me.

You must have very weird friends. My family and I havent had any issues since Vista.

Random recent example. Using an Intel or Toshiba SSD is decidedly not weird:

https://www.anandtech.com/show/12742/latest-windows-10-versi...

This update has broken computers until the SSDs in question were blacklisted. For people who auto-downloaded the update after that, Windows "only" showed annoying and absolutely unhelpful error messages every single day since the 1803 release.

This is not an outlier, but a strategy: https://www.computerworld.com/article/2878026/microsoft-to-b...

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