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I'm more interested in how companies with private repos on GitHub react.

by trynewideas 8y ago

jonny_eh 8y ago
Especially those that compete with MS or their subsidiaries. But then again, Netflix uses AWS, so who knows?
- rad_gruchalski 8y ago
  I don’t understand your comment about Netflix using AWS. AFAIR, Netflix is a reference customer for AWS. Every re:invent is full of Netflix people. Care to elaborate?
  - Marysville 8y ago
    Netflix is paying money to its competitor. i.e. Amazon Prime Video.
    - voltagex_ 8y ago
      Does Prime Video actually make money? It seems like a side project compared to some other Amazon stuff.
  - jonny_eh 8y ago
    Amazon is Netflix's largest competitor.
com2kid 8y ago
Companies that complete with MS still use Windows, Sharepoint, Office 365, and OneDrive. Microsoft isn't going to go around snooping competitors' source code any more than they are going to go around snooping competitors' email.
- CydeWeys 8y ago
  Google doesn't. Do Apple and Amazon?
- trynewideas 8y ago
  And more relevantly to GitHub, they still use Azure and VS Code and Surface computers and XBoxes and keyboards and etc. etc. etc. I don't expect Microsoft, as a company, "to go around snooping competitors' source code any more than they are going to go around snooping competitors' email" or Azure infrastructure or code editor or putting loggers in peripherals or any other tinfoil theories. I _do_ expect some companies to reconsider their policies in light of the acquisition and decide that other options make more sense for them for numerous reasons, including but not limited to not wanting to hand (even more) money over to a competitor for a service they don't necessarily need Microsoft to provide to them, or if they suspect Microsoft will significantly change the existing ToU/ToS in ways those companies would rather not deal with.
- tjalfi 8y ago
  Microsoft did snoop through the email account of a blogger who received leaked information[0]. [0] https://www.recode.net/2014/3/20/11624792/blogger-psa-dont-use-microsofts-web-mail-to-receive-microsoft-leaks https://www.recode.net/2014/3/20/11624792/blogger-psa-dont-u...
est 8y ago
Did you know Gitlab.com was hosted on Azure?
- aerique 8y ago
  GitLab was migrating to the Google Cloud Platform: https://about.gitlab.com/2018/04/05/gke-gitlab-integration/ https://about.gitlab.com/2018/04/05/gke-gitlab-integration/ I do not know whether this migration has finished. More links: - http://fortune.com/2016/11/14/gitlab-cloud-storage/ http://fortune.com/2016/11/14/gitlab-cloud-storage/ - https://venturebeat.com/2018/04/06/why-and-how-gitlab-abandoned-microsoft-azure-for-google-cloud/ https://venturebeat.com/2018/04/06/why-and-how-gitlab-abando...

I'm more interested in how companies with private repos on GitHub react.

jonny_eh 8y ago

Especially those that compete with MS or their subsidiaries. But then again, Netflix uses AWS, so who knows?

rad_gruchalski 8y ago
I don’t understand your comment about Netflix using AWS. AFAIR, Netflix is a reference customer for AWS. Every re:invent is full of Netflix people. Care to elaborate?
- Marysville 8y ago
  Netflix is paying money to its competitor. i.e. Amazon Prime Video.
  - voltagex_ 8y ago
    Does Prime Video actually make money? It seems like a side project compared to some other Amazon stuff.
- jonny_eh 8y ago
  Amazon is Netflix's largest competitor.

com2kid 8y ago

Companies that complete with MS still use Windows, Sharepoint, Office 365, and OneDrive. Microsoft isn't going to go around snooping competitors' source code any more than they are going to go around snooping competitors' email.

CydeWeys 8y ago
Google doesn't. Do Apple and Amazon?
trynewideas 8y ago
And more relevantly to GitHub, they still use Azure and VS Code and Surface computers and XBoxes and keyboards and etc. etc. etc. I don't expect Microsoft, as a company, "to go around snooping competitors' source code any more than they are going to go around snooping competitors' email" or Azure infrastructure or code editor or putting loggers in peripherals or any other tinfoil theories. I _do_ expect some companies to reconsider their policies in light of the acquisition and decide that other options make more sense for them for numerous reasons, including but not limited to not wanting to hand (even more) money over to a competitor for a service they don't necessarily need Microsoft to provide to them, or if they suspect Microsoft will significantly change the existing ToU/ToS in ways those companies would rather not deal with.
tjalfi 8y ago
Microsoft did snoop through the email account of a blogger who received leaked information[0]. [0] https://www.recode.net/2014/3/20/11624792/blogger-psa-dont-use-microsofts-web-mail-to-receive-microsoft-leaks https://www.recode.net/2014/3/20/11624792/blogger-psa-dont-u...

est 8y ago

Did you know Gitlab.com was hosted on Azure?

aerique 8y ago
GitLab was migrating to the Google Cloud Platform: https://about.gitlab.com/2018/04/05/gke-gitlab-integration/ https://about.gitlab.com/2018/04/05/gke-gitlab-integration/ I do not know whether this migration has finished. More links: - http://fortune.com/2016/11/14/gitlab-cloud-storage/ http://fortune.com/2016/11/14/gitlab-cloud-storage/ - https://venturebeat.com/2018/04/06/why-and-how-gitlab-abandoned-microsoft-azure-for-google-cloud/ https://venturebeat.com/2018/04/06/why-and-how-gitlab-abando...