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"During the 2014–16 Ebola outbreak in West Africa, for example, researchers used the platform to share and cross-check daily patient counts." Pretty sure this i
by Fomite 8y ago
"During the 2014–16 Ebola outbreak in West Africa, for example, researchers used the platform to share and cross-check daily patient counts." Pretty sure this is referring to the lab I used to work in.
Honestly, I'm not particularly worried about the buyout - pretty sure the chances of them just scrapping the whole service are slim, and "GitHub disappears" seems equally as likely burning through VC cash as it does owned by Microsoft.
- craftyguy 8y agoFor the current regime, mmaybe. But don't underestimate next regime's ability to flip tables.
- eftychis 8y agoThat is the main worry, I would say. Less likely Github is going to flip and die than Microsoft becoming anti-opensource again (they are anti-foss/floss still I would say -- not talking about the engineers working there of course).
- acct1771 8y agoOf course, this ignores the fact that by forging their employers goals ahead, they're, to some extent, endorsing their viewpoints.
- Fomite 8y agoI mean yeah, but that's always true. But until my next grant wants to pay for someone to deal with self-hosting, it's a risk I'll take.
- gaius 8y agothe chances of them just scrapping the whole service are slim, and "GitHub disappears" seems equally as likely burning through VC cash as it does owned by Microsoft. Right, the people who should really be worried are VSTS users. And GitLab users funnily enough. They are VC backed and will have to exit too, and everyone’s looking at them now. The least worst thing that could happen is bought by Atlassian and folded into Bitbucket. And you’re completely right, it is actually pretty weird that they were never worried before when it was burning VC cash. Funded by grants, I’m not sure scientists fully understand how this works.
- freeone3000 8y agoVSTS does a lot of stuff GitHub doesn't, and has had GitHub as a source control option for a while.
- jeremy_wiebe 8y agoGitHub or just git? I thought just the latter.
- my123 8y agoActually, both. GitHub is a nice option if you want to use VSTS for CI. Note that Windows itself is in a Git repo on VSTS (os repo in the Microsoft tenant)
- earenndil 8y agoIIRC they've said they intend to keep VSTS and github as separate products.
- gaius 8y agothey intend to keep VSTS and github as separate product Still, consider Codeplex, which isn’t around anymore. I see the two merging over time, say in 5 years, and I expect the migration to be fairly painless, so I am not too worried personally, but I can see how some people might be.
- jpalomaki 8y agoIsn’t the existence of Github the reason Codeplex is no more? Github was so good alternative that it made no sense for Google and Microsoft maintain their own services geared towards open source projects. Building a viable Github competitor would not have fitted to Microsoft strategy which was back then focused on Windows.
- radicalbyte 8y agoUnlikely, they're targeting different markets. There is a place for both of them in Microsoft's portfolio.