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It's not unexpected. Serious projects need more than a few days to move off Github; and there's some overlap between HN users and users who would move their tin
by alxlaz 8y ago
It's not unexpected. Serious projects need more than a few days to move off Github; and there's some overlap between HN users and users who would move their tiny projects off Github on a Sunday afternoon.
That being said, it's way too early to tell how this will evolve trust-wise. Microsoft has a tremendous deficit of trust in the open source community. Younger folks probably don't realize how deep it runs; most of my friends and colleagues who were involved in FOSS in the late 1990s and early 00s wouldn't touch anything with Microsoft on it with a ten-foot pole -- not just because of prejudice, but because fool me once etc etc.. And I wasn't thrilled about hosting code on someone else's computer before, either, but now I'm even less thrilled about hosting it on Microsoft's computer.
- jsgo 8y agoHas Gitlab finished their hosted migration from Azure to Google's cloud yet? They announced they were starting in April, but those things take time.
- dcolebatch 8y agoNot from what I can tell: https://imgur.com/r1d3sj9 https://imgur.com/r1d3sj9
- macintux 8y agoYep, those scars are very, very deep. The thought that Microsoft seemed a lock to rule the computing world made me a very miserable IT person for many years. Now I don't think about them much at all. I'm not thrilled that they now own a vital part of the OSS world, but I'm optimistic their overall irrelevance to my life will persist.