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 parvenu74 » Sun, Jun 03, 2018, 9:57 PM UTC

jakebasile wrote: post #444

parvenu74 wrote: post #383

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And... what has Microsoft done to you lately? Gates is playing international philanthropist; Ballmer is playing NBA owner. The new regime not only likes open source and contribute massively to open source projects, they joined the Linux Foundation at the _Platinum_ level... there are a lot of "good open source companies" with deep pockets who haven't done that. Like Google. https://www.linuxfoundation.org/press-relea…

I am forced to use Windows for gaming, and let me tell you what Microsoft has done to me lately. - Forced updates are a travesty. I should be able to delay or ignore updates indefinitely as I own my computer. - I'm not allowed to not run an antivirus program, despite having no need of one. I can only temporarily pause Windows Defender's real-time checks before they'll helpfully turn it back on for me. This results in…

> Forces updates are a travesty.

You can disable this. Google on the use for modifying the hosts file to block your machine's access to Windows Update if you're not sure how to do this.

> They hold some games hostage and refuse to release them on Windows...

Wait -- I thought you were forced, as a gamer, to use Windows. I don't follow.

> UWP is trash...

This is true. UWP tries to be many things, like a single container for desktop, tablet, and (Windows) mobile apps. In the end it mostly fails.

> I'm not allowed to not run an antivirus program.

Uh, dude: I run Windows 7 and Windows 10 machines and none of them FORCE me to use antivirus. They nag about it for a while but those alerts and nags can be disabled.

Re: Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub

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Post by oblio » Sun, Jun 03, 2018, 9:58 PM UTC

riazrizvi wrote: post #173

Angostura wrote: post #32

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

“Hi, I’m Gitty! I see you are having difficulty submitting your large file. Would you like some help with that?” [YES] [NO]

Clippy was last activated by default back in 2001 (!). When are we going to let go of this old joke?

Re: Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub

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Post by throwaway080383 » Sun, Jun 03, 2018, 9:58 PM UTC

The final step will be acquiring StackOverflow. After that, nearly every developer will find their next job via Microsoft.

Re: Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub

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Post by ianwalter » Sun, Jun 03, 2018, 9:58 PM UTC

This is a little unfortunate but I think theres a possibility this could turn out to be a positive thing for both MS and GH. I hope so at least.

Re: Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub

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Post by cosmicmove » Sun, Jun 03, 2018, 9:58 PM UTC

skratlo wrote: post #316

nyxtom wrote: post #197

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. Ma…

Where is the Github on Blockchain project?

http://oscoin.io/ a team in Berlin is working on it for some time.

Re: Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub

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Post by segmondy » Sun, Jun 03, 2018, 9:58 PM UTC

I'm hopeful. I like typescript and Visual Code. I like their linux subsystem on windows granted that I don't use it since I'm not a windows user.

Re: Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub

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Post by meiraleal » Sun, Jun 03, 2018, 9:59 PM UTC

This is great for Gitlab. I'm going to try to use more and more.

Re: Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub

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Post by ediardo » Sun, Jun 03, 2018, 9:59 PM UTC

simon_acca wrote: post #417

Ask yourself and ask your dev friends, who is paying for Github? I personally don't know a single person that is subscribed to it even after spending 5 years in academia and several others in the job pool. And yet every single person that I know && that can code is more than acquainted with github! Now this could be the result of a lack of business acumen on github's part or stubborness from the users. In any case, i…

I know several small, medium, large companies paying github to keep their repos private. Also, github offers on-premises installation of their product.

Re: Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub

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Post by Ice_cream_suit » Sun, Jun 03, 2018, 9:59 PM UTC

Time to move to Gitlab...

Re: Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub

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Post by parvenu74 » Sun, Jun 03, 2018, 10:00 PM UTC

mixmastamyk wrote: post #427

parvenu74 wrote: post #383

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And... what has Microsoft done to you lately? Gates is playing international philanthropist; Ballmer is playing NBA owner. The new regime not only likes open source and contribute massively to open source projects, they joined the Linux Foundation at the _Platinum_ level... there are a lot of "good open source companies" with deep pockets who haven't done that. Like Google. https://www.linuxfoundation.org/press-relea…

In bed with the NSA, telemetry, forced W10 migration, just off the top of my head. That said, I do appreciate their recent strategy decisions. Lets hope at some point the two hemispheres of MS converge.

> Forced Windows 10 migration

Incorrect. Nagged, yes, but my Windows 7 machine that runs my Primera 4102 DVD duplicator still runs Windows 7 and will for as long as I own it. And it wasn't that hard to find the "don't nag me about upgrading ever again" option on Windows 7.