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Part of the reason we trusted GitHub with our projects and our code was they were a neutral party simply providing a service. Sadly, being bought out by micros
by toofy 8y ago
Part of the reason we trusted GitHub with our projects and our code was they were a neutral party simply providing a service.
Sadly, being bought out by microsoft completely removes their neutrality. Whether they will abuse the trust of having complete and total access to every private repo and all of the code inside or not remains to be seen. But I certainly don’t view GitHub as neutral site anymore. Sadly, from a business perspective, GitHub just isn’t rational when they’re owned by Microsoft. Even less so when we’ve seen how blatantly evil they have been in the past. For us, at least at this point, it will be better to bite the bullet now and move sooner rather than gamble. As someone else here said, even good community oriented companies are only a rough quarter away from shady business practices.
I truly hope they don’t kill off GitHub, it’s been a truly amazing space and I really hope it works out for the devs who work there — the ones I know are amazing people and true believers, I really do hope this works out well for them, they deserve it. Now off to start the long arduous process of migrating everything to GitLab :/
- kumarharsh 8y agoWhy will they kill of Github? They just shut down their own repository website (Codeplex) and moved all their code to github. That's perhaps the most misplaced fear I've read here. Plus, from what I've read, MS was perhaps the best possible buyer of GH - and no, a federated distributed model was definitely not a possibility given the huge sums of investor money involved.
- andy-x 8y agoThey don't need to literally kill, they can just make many useful features internal to Microsoft developers, or make some features that are free now subscription-only.