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GP gave you a very good reason why this is different than historical Microsoft EEE[0]: > Github doesn't have the vendor lock-in that other companies have Ther

GP gave you a very good reason why this is different than historical Microsoft EEE[0]: > Github doesn't have the vendor lock-in that other companies have There's not much about Github that can't be easily replaced; it uses git at its core. Comments, issues, and wikis are convenient, but relatively simple to implement. The main value in Github is the de facto community status it has, which it earned by being an open community and good steward of open source projects. The worst MS could do here is shoot themselves in the foot and ruin that value (which they just purchased for 7.5B) by driving developers to other platforms (who will make it all too easy to switch). I think the M&A teams at MS must have seen this possiblity and have a different plan in mind for Github. Think dead simple (one-click) Azure deployments and integrations. And if you want (or need) that functionality for a different cloud provider, you'll just have to build it yourself on a different site. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguish https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguis...

sixothree 8y ago
It's not like anything about github is open source. Maybe that will change.
- wooter 8y ago
  well, there was the atom editor. which now i fully expect msft to kill in favor of vs code. damn it.
  - workinthehead 8y ago
    How would they kill it? It's open source.
    - kickopotomus 8y ago
      They can't really "kill" it as in destroy it, but the biggest contributors to that project were all GitHub staff. MS will most definitely redirect any staff efforts to VSCode instead.
  - Totoradio 8y ago
    VsCode is open source too: https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode
    - wooter 8y ago
      i vastly prefer atom - open source or not.
boffinism 8y ago
> There's not much about Github that can't be easily replaced. Integration and workflow. Thanks to the various gubbins available in the marketplace[0], CI/CD goodies, hooks into communication and project management tools and so on, for a lot of people migrating away from Github would mean losing access to enough little convenience things that actually it's not feasible for a large organisation with not great process change management techniques. https://github.com/marketplace https://github.com/marketplace

sixothree 8y ago

It's not like anything about github is open source. Maybe that will change.

wooter 8y ago
well, there was the atom editor. which now i fully expect msft to kill in favor of vs code. damn it.
- workinthehead 8y ago
  How would they kill it? It's open source.
  - kickopotomus 8y ago
    They can't really "kill" it as in destroy it, but the biggest contributors to that project were all GitHub staff. MS will most definitely redirect any staff efforts to VSCode instead.
- Totoradio 8y ago
  VsCode is open source too: https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode
  - wooter 8y ago
    i vastly prefer atom - open source or not.

boffinism 8y ago

> There's not much about Github that can't be easily replaced. Integration and workflow. Thanks to the various gubbins available in the marketplace[0], CI/CD goodies, hooks into communication and project management tools and so on, for a lot of people migrating away from Github would mean losing access to enough little convenience things that actually it's not feasible for a large organisation with not great process change management techniques. https://github.com/marketplace https://github.com/marketplace