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Microsoft is one of the most valuable companies on the planet because it is destructive? What’s that even mean?
Who taught you that high market cap equals nondestructive? Go ask for your money back.
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It's pretty easy for non .NET jobs too. Their developer tools are pretty good for their own platform (but JetBrains actually makes great cross platform tools, some of them are proper free and open source, VSCode is playing catch up). Their C++ stdlib implementation was sucking balls for decades. Their (the dev tools') scriptability was horrible. PowerShell is nice, but it came too late, and it was too server focused.…
MSVC's stdlib is still a headache, just see the /std flag[1] which only appeared in msvc2017: you can either have C++14 with some C++17 features, or C++ "latest" which means 17 and missing features. EDIT: just noticed the article says it was also added to 2013, but my 2015 doesn't support it so idk. I can conceive PowerShell being good as a scripting language, but as a day to day terminal? That would my hell. And the…
The world's largest software retailer just acquired the worlds largest source code repository and everyone thinks this is a win for open-source.
No ?
respond. https://monitor.gitlab.net/dashboard/db/github-importer
Reports of migrations to other sites are real, and Microsoft sees a risk thats legitimate enough to issue a presser. Its going to be hard to head off a github exodus at the pass because git itself is open source and there are numerous alternatives that can quickly and easily (some with no more than the click of a button) spirit the github userbase --which is what Microsoft arguably wants in order to legitimize its cloud/open source push-- away from them.
https://sourceforge.net/ even released a special tool to migrate you away from github. Certainly some of the more business minded users will argue this acquisition from Microsoft is a "good move" but the fact that this is the second presser microsoft has thrown out regarding the nature of its merger in less than 5 hours reflects a pretty sincere push from redmond. Microsofts historic legacy of fear, uncertainty, doubt, and outright hostile action to crush open source and startups in general is a pretty insurmountable.
Friendly reminder: this is the same Microsoft that "empowered" skype and once called open source a cancer. Its the same Microsoft that ruined open document standards and started the browser wars. I wouldnt be surprised to see next years release of "Github Pro Platinum with Minecraft 3D and Windows Store integration" For those looking to move, https://gitlab.com is an excellent open source alternative that can easily…
I just finished moving all my 20+ repos over from github and deleted all of my github accounts. Feels good actually. I'm glad to see gitlab getting good attention. I bet all of the people behind gitlab are feeling pumped/anxious/excited right now! ^_^
Friendly reminder: this is the same Microsoft that "empowered" skype and once called open source a cancer. Its the same Microsoft that ruined open document standards and started the browser wars. I wouldnt be surprised to see next years release of "Github Pro Platinum with Minecraft 3D and Windows Store integration" For those looking to move, https://gitlab.com is an excellent open source alternative that can easily…
> once called open source a cancer There are some really good arguments as to why we should be worried about Microsoft so can we please stop ruining them by using this complete misquote as a component. This comment covers it well: > This is disingenuous. He was referring to the licensing model of certain open-source projects, where the introduction of a single line of code coming from an open source project would req…
> [...] Linux is a cancer that attaches itself in an intellectual property sense to everything it touches. That's the way that the license works.
https://web.archive.org/web/20011108013601/http://www.suntim...
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Since you're up here, maybe link to what you see as reasonable critiques?
I'll just dump my own here. This is mostly anti-corporate, anti-monopolistic, anti-cloud, and anti-surveillance ideas. Windows, the development environments, etc is a monolithic platform that has very little in terms of customization due to it's structure and prevents competitive integrations. Think of all of the WMs for Linux, or any other modular component in Linux. Linux provides extensive competition, and Microso…
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Nokia is pretty much alive. As for what Elop did, in case you missed the news, he only did what the Nokia board themselves asked him to do, and even gave him a bonus for achieving it.
>As for what Elop did, in case you missed the news, he only did what the Nokia board themselves asked him to do Did that include having secret negotiations with Steve Ballmer that the board was unaware of? For a true accounting of what really happened you can find it all in Operation Elop. https://medium.com/@harrikiljander/operation-elop-6f2b043f52...
If the board hadn't had such bonus (24. The bonus brouhaha boils over) as Helsingin Sanomat discovered, the outcome would be much different.
https://medium.com/@harrikiljander/operation-elop-6f2b043f52...
As someone that used to know the Espoo HQ from inside, Microsoft is not the one I blame.
That was when I finally dumped Skype and moved fully to FaceTime/Duo/WhatsApp/Messenger. Thank goodness for competition.
I adore GitHub. My children and I wear their tshirts, we brandish their logo on our laptops and phones. I hope Microsoft doesnt half-abandon this post-merger integration.