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Satya Nadela's done differently to his predecessors, maybe this will go well. I understand the concern of a few companies dominating everything that we use, bu
by nevi-me 8y ago
Satya Nadela's done differently to his predecessors, maybe this will go well.
I understand the concern of a few companies dominating everything that we use, but time will tell.
- fredley 8y agoMicrosoft has been setting a very (almost unthinkably) different course since Ballmer departed. Bash on Windows, Visual Studio Code, as well as other seemingly genuine commitments to open source. It's wonderful that competitors like GitLab exist, and today is probably a great day for them, but I'm willing to give Microsoft the benefit of the doubt on this one - we won't be moving.
- jjuel 8y agoI wonder what people would have thought if Github had just disappeared instead of selling to Microsoft? I mean I understand some concern, but this can really only be a good thing for Github in the long run. It isn't like Microsoft was producing a competitor and just bought them to kill them. Honestly, I like this better than Amazon or Google buying them.
- c3833174 8y agoIssues and old repots would be lost but people would move on to another service.
- bovermyer 8y agoThis is an important point. Microsoft's acquisition of GitHub means that Amazon and Google lost out on a major component of the developer ecosystem. I doubt we'll be able to predict how they'll respond. Their own code hosting services are... anemic, in Amazon's case, and dead, in Google's case.
- ethbro 8y agoYeah, it'll be interesting. In hindsight, it's amazing the other hyperscale cloud providers didn't buy it.
- MrStonedOne 8y ago>I wonder what people would have thought if Github had just disappeared I would have preferred it. Very likely their final act would have been to open source github and then we could finally get a good OOS platform that used their own issue tracker. Atm the players are gitlab, a mess that barely works and reserves some pretty fucking basic features for enterprise, some random initials i can never remember (somebody get them a branding guy, even tom haverford would work) and closed source github. So ya, i would have preferred if github failed.
- jacquesm 8y agoThat definitely wasn't the only alternative. The reason this happened is to get a payday for the investors. I'm happy they invested, but when you look at GitHub it is a utility, not a commercial enterprise and should be treated like public transport rather than like an oil company.