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Yes, I think people should expect to move. Microsoft cannot be trusted. They make fine products, but they are definitely looking to make money from this acqui

Yes, I think people should expect to move. Microsoft cannot be trusted. They make fine products, but they are definitely looking to make money from this acquisition. EDIT: This is to say that Github was not looking to squeeze their users. I have been squeezed by microsoft.

lmcarreiro 8y ago
> but they are definitely looking to make money from this acquisition Who wouldn't?
jakelazaroff 8y ago
Why shouldn't they? It's not like GitHub wasn't trying to make money before.
- LarryDarrell 8y ago
  It's like a bunch of anarchists woke up to find that Kushner just bought the apartment building they were squatting in. Github wasn't a Robin Hood scheme. They were never giving their finger to the man. Their goal was to make a lot of money, failing that, sell for a lot of money. We are lucky Oracle didn't buy them at least. Given how many employers/recruiters want to see a GitHub account, I expect to see a lot of future LinkedIn integration.
hannasanarion 8y ago
Economics is not a zero-sum game. Just because the company is making money doesn't mean that you are losing something. Github has been underwater for years, would you rather it be propped up by a big corporate sponsor that can subsidize its losses, or run out of money and die? I expect to move, because I also do not trust microsoft, but I am not moving yet until I see what they do with it.
- mkirklions 8y ago
  >Economics is not a zero-sum game. This is not what I'm implying. >I am not moving yet until I see what they do with it. If you are too late, you might not get your projects off without paying fees.
  - alpos 8y ago
    >If you are too late, you might not get your projects off without paying fees. This thinking belies a misunderstanding of how Git works. There is no way they can prevent a person from pushing to another repo and recreating whatever workflow they had on Github.
    - undseg 8y ago
      Remember that github is not just git hosting. While I cannot envision a future in which they'd actively prevent you from export/crawl out your own data, migrating your workflow is not as easy as changing your remote.

lmcarreiro 8y ago

> but they are definitely looking to make money from this acquisition Who wouldn't?

jakelazaroff 8y ago

Why shouldn't they? It's not like GitHub wasn't trying to make money before.

LarryDarrell 8y ago
It's like a bunch of anarchists woke up to find that Kushner just bought the apartment building they were squatting in. Github wasn't a Robin Hood scheme. They were never giving their finger to the man. Their goal was to make a lot of money, failing that, sell for a lot of money. We are lucky Oracle didn't buy them at least. Given how many employers/recruiters want to see a GitHub account, I expect to see a lot of future LinkedIn integration.

hannasanarion 8y ago

Economics is not a zero-sum game. Just because the company is making money doesn't mean that you are losing something. Github has been underwater for years, would you rather it be propped up by a big corporate sponsor that can subsidize its losses, or run out of money and die? I expect to move, because I also do not trust microsoft, but I am not moving yet until I see what they do with it.

mkirklions 8y ago
>Economics is not a zero-sum game. This is not what I'm implying. >I am not moving yet until I see what they do with it. If you are too late, you might not get your projects off without paying fees.
- alpos 8y ago
  >If you are too late, you might not get your projects off without paying fees. This thinking belies a misunderstanding of how Git works. There is no way they can prevent a person from pushing to another repo and recreating whatever workflow they had on Github.
  - undseg 8y ago
    Remember that github is not just git hosting. While I cannot envision a future in which they'd actively prevent you from export/crawl out your own data, migrating your workflow is not as easy as changing your remote.