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I am a GitLab user and have been for about 2 years now. With that being said, I think this acquisition makes a ton of sense strategically. Microsoft has really been trying to change their identity from being a stuffy close-source corporation to an open company that developers can rely on. And they have done pretty well at this. They open sourced .net, run MS SQL on Linux, and have released the WSL (which would have b…
> Second, we will accelerate enterprise developers’ use of GitHub, with our direct sales and partner channels and access to Microsoft’s global cloud infrastructure and services.
This is it.
At one time Microsoft used to dominate enterprise software development in certain areas (most of the east coast in the U.S.) to such a degree that it was almost impossible to find a non-.NET developer job.
Their biggest failure was TFS. At one time all .NET shops used it. But then git crept in and the rest is history.
Microsoft is going to sell a lot of enterprise hosting accounts. Look for the on-premises installations to go through the roof, especially.
People keep mentioning how "Microsoft changed" due to VS Code, the Linux subsystem, .NET Core. I say that they are the same company, only with different cash cows. Haven't they spied on Windows 10 users? Do they not engage in patents racketeering? Haven't they killed Nokia and ruined Skype? " But Mom, some of the other companies are doing it too ", well yeah, but some of us don't have double standards, in spite of wh…
I think having different cash cows does change a company. If it's in their interest to be a good steward of VSCode, Typescript, Github etc then they're more likely to do it.
I think consolidation is actually as much of an issue as which company it is, the more consolidated, arguably the less direct incentive for intercompatibility and open standards. That's more of an issue here because GitHub is not open-source, so unlike the other examples the developer base has nothing to fall back on.
On privacy, that's never stopped anyone from using Angular or Kubernetes because of Google, or React because of Facebook, unfortunately behaviour towards developers seems to be judged separately from behaviour towards users.
They do seem to be trying to reassure people that they're not gonna mess this up: > And Microsoft is all-in on open source. We have been on a journey with open source, and today we are active in the open source ecosystem, we contribute to open source projects, and some of our most vibrant developer tools and frameworks are open source. When it comes to our commitment to open source, judge us by the actions we have ta…
There is one actor I don't trust with that, it is them. I'll move my repos next weekend. Maybe that's the call I needed to self host...
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguis...
They do seem to be trying to reassure people that they're not gonna mess this up: > And Microsoft is all-in on open source. We have been on a journey with open source, and today we are active in the open source ecosystem, we contribute to open source projects, and some of our most vibrant developer tools and frameworks are open source. When it comes to our commitment to open source, judge us by the actions we have ta…
Yes, they got way better at PR. They could get away with bad PR before when they were leader, but now that they have serious competition from everywhere, they are trying to win people away again.
Guess that's the very definition of finally reaching their stated goal: Developers, Developers, Developers, Developers, Developers, Developers, Developers, Developers. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33grif58qO8
I still remember when this was made.
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I must ask, if it wasn't profitable on Sunday what changes today?
You have a company with deep pockets that can fund it as ongoing concern.
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So which company would you rather buy Github? GitHub wasn't profitable. Would you rather it just disappear?
It would be great if companies like GitHub would figure out how to earn money. I love more diversity in companies and not just a handful of them dominating and being insanely profitable. The only good thing I see about acquisitions like this is that there will be a few employees with enough money to care less about their future and build something new and interesting. At MS, Google, FB, etc this will not happen.
"Developers, developers, developers!"
Numerous possibilities for Microsoft having a product with millions of developers. Some top of my head, -> Bundle Github Business Plans and Office 365 which includes Microsoft Teams I guess. -> Better azure integrations and push developers for more Azure usage -> Push VSCode out to more developers -> Connect LinkedIn accounts of developers to their GitHub accounts and help companies hire better