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 thinkpad20 » Sun, Jun 03, 2018, 11:04 PM UTC

indigochill wrote: post #339

Heck, I already prefer Gitlab and/or Bitbucket because they let me run free (or at least self-hosted in Gitlab's case, not sure what their hosted option's like) private repos. Github's just got the mindshare going for it. But maybe now that'll change.

I switched jobs and went from Github to Bitbucket about 6 months ago. I've found bitbucket to be consistently and noticeably slower than github both in its web UI and in pushes/pulls, with more downtime. You pay for those private repos one way or another.

Re: Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub

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Post by robert_nsu » Sun, Jun 03, 2018, 11:04 PM UTC

This doesn't bother me at all. I'd be far more worried if Oracle acquired GitHub.

Re: Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub

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Post by the_duke » Sun, Jun 03, 2018, 11:04 PM UTC

Symbiote wrote: post #533

frutiger wrote: post #498

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you ever get something for free, remember something somewhere is subsidizing it. Whether that's the other paid accounts, which therefore must be uncompetitively priced, VC funding (which will eventually run out), or your data is sold.

> your data is sold It's now easier to see some of this, with the GDPR rules. The Gitlab cookie page lists 80 "marketing" cookies which may be set: https://about.gitlab.com/privacy/cookies/

Most of which you can now disable disallow on first visit.

Re: Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub

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Post by MarkyC4 » Sun, Jun 03, 2018, 11:04 PM UTC

jenscow wrote: post #30

jstanley wrote: post #10

Step 1: Embrace.

I think they're on step 2 now. They already embraced it by adding 1k repos. They're now going to extend it. We'll soon have an msgit, which is git with extensions that only github will support.

You mean like the current extensions in the .github folder (pull request template, etc)?

Re: Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub

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Post by _betty_ » Sun, Jun 03, 2018, 11:04 PM UTC

013a wrote: post #259

This 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…

Interestingly enough they're actively working on public vsts repositories, I thought that was devdiv trying to migrate their code back to MS land. Wonder if that's what sparked the conversations.

Re: Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub

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Post by rainbowmverse » Sun, Jun 03, 2018, 11:05 PM UTC

Maybe this means Netlify will speed up adding GitLab support to their CMS.

Re: Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub

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Post by samfisher83 » Sun, Jun 03, 2018, 11:05 PM UTC

Microsoft had codeplex which was older than github. They are probably going to spend 4 or 5 billion buying Github. They most likely write down the value a few years later.

Re: Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub

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Post by vzaliva » Sun, Jun 03, 2018, 11:06 PM UTC

We've all seen how it ended with Skype... Terrible news indeed.

Re: Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub

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Post by Yhippa » Sun, Jun 03, 2018, 11:07 PM UTC

LeanderK wrote: post #45

I am worried that a company as important to the open-source community as github is now owned by one of the major players. I think it really impacts the neutrality of github. If I would compete with microsoft in a certain space, I would really think twice about relying on github. Also, this monopolization is driving me mad.

Why did the F/OSS community put all their eggs in one basket? Hell a lot of big companies did also. I wonder how they're going to react to this?

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Post by ttsda » Sun, Jun 03, 2018, 11:07 PM UTC

neckardt wrote: post #474

st26 wrote: post #353

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Centralization has an undeniable fundamental attraction. Everything, really, seems to naturally trend towards centralization, and then major scandals reverse the trend. We will probably swing back and forth between the two in perpetuity. The whole darn internet was built to be decentralized. And yet we all use GMail, the same handful of DNS servers, the same short list of major trunk hubs, the same shrinking list of…

I've always found it too difficult to choose the "decentralized" option for many services. It's just not convenient enough to spin up my own gitlab server, or own email. I tried to do both of those things a while ago when I was still new to Linux, and gave up due to the number of steps involved which I inevitably fucked up. The solution for me would be packages which hold my hand through the install process to make i…

I got tired of managing all that software so I just moved to containers. The Docker Hub has pretty much all I need, and if it doesn't, it's much easier to get it working than spinning a new VM or trying to install it together with a bunch of other software and keep them all up to date.