Everyone complaining about MS buying GitHub needs to offer a better solution
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Re: Everyone complaining about MS buying GitHub needs to offer a better solution
#2They really don’t.
Re: Everyone complaining about MS buying GitHub needs to offer a better solution
#3People need to realize that google could have bought it. Think about it.
Re: Everyone complaining about MS buying GitHub needs to offer a better solution
#4People need to realize that google could have bought it. Think about it.
Why would google buy it beyond charity?
Re: Everyone complaining about MS buying GitHub needs to offer a better solution
#5GitHub was a bad solution for FLOSS projects already, it just became so much clearer now.
Re: Everyone complaining about MS buying GitHub needs to offer a better solution
#6Generally I have always hated the argument that anyone opposed to anything needs to have a better solution before their opinion is valid and will be taken into account.
Sometimes it's clear how a particular solution is negative but beyond that we don't have the breath or depth of knowledge to suggest the alternative or it is not our job to spend the time to come up with one. Yet we may have enough experience in a particular aspect of it to know about a significant downside of the choice.
It always just seems like a way of dismissing valid criticism by someone who supports the choice and not addressing the criticism.
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Re: Everyone complaining about MS buying GitHub needs to offer a better solution
#7"You can't complain until you provide something better" is one of the oldest bullshit arguments in the book.
If I go to a doctor with an ailment, or the Agora with a public grievance, the notion of admitting and communicating that there's a problem is an essential step. Identifying etiologies, goals, and solutions ("getting there from here") are also necessary, but independent steps that need not be initiated or accomplished by the same people.
Sorry, but I'm tired of this very tired trope.
A key problem is that infrastructure, information, and information exchanges play poorly with markets and market-oriented institutions: for-profit corporations.
If markets are your problem, marketing-it-harder -- selling the company to a larger and more abusive monopolist -- will probably mean you'll be having a bad day.
Re: Everyone complaining about MS buying GitHub needs to offer a better solution
#8I personally think it’s fair to be catiously optimisitic at best. I for one don’t have the solution but I don’t feel like all the sudden I need to trust Microsoft.
That being said I like the direction they are going in but I’m sure people liked the direction they were going in before thier change of heart towards open source too.
Re: Everyone complaining about MS buying GitHub needs to offer a better solution
#9>Everyone complaining about MS buying GitHub needs to offer a better solution
MS not buying GitHub?
Re: Everyone complaining about MS buying GitHub needs to offer a better solution
#10Letting it shut down