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I 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 on
by jjuel 8y ago
I 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.