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No need to try hard to find malice. Corporations are amoral and they will do what it takes to make money. For MS that means now cloud services, Office & Window
by blub 8y ago
No need to try hard to find malice. Corporations are amoral and they will do what it takes to make money.
For MS that means now cloud services, Office & Windows + some other smaller income stuff. In each of these areas they are aggressively pursuing their interests: the ODF scandal and Munich Linux project come to mind.
The rest they can open-source freely and without any negative repercussions, it just makes business sense for the goodwill they will receive.
Please note that there are also many private repos and there's also github desktop.
- ocdtrekkie 8y agoI would definitely agree that corporations are amoral and will do what it takes to make money, I've made the same argument myself. But GitHub's primary value is lost if everyone leaves it: They would lose most of the value of their $7.5 billion investment if they did what many people are irrationally speculating. I use GitHub Desktop for some things myself, but it's only slightly more capable than GitHub's web interface: Serviceable for basic operations, but probably not the Git client professional developers are going to rely on.
- blub 8y agoI believe they paid in MS shares, so they could in fact shut down Github tomorrow and move on like nothing happened :)