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Google buying them would have been amazing, for about 2 years until Google closed them for not having enough users or they added ads to everything.

nashashmi 8y ago
Sting! Just like code.Google.Com
dvfjsdhgfv 8y ago
It's hard to believe now, but it wasn't a very long time ago that Google was doing some very, very strange things trying to push Google+ down everyone's throats, especially on YouTube. I really have no idea of what they would use GitHub for. With MS it's more or less clear: they will put ads of Azure, Visual Studio and other dev-related products on GitHub; with time, they'll also use their front page to announce their dev conferences and so on. Eventually, as Nat said, their aim is to "earn the trust" of open source devs, so that they perceive MS in a positive way (they already succeeded partially, as many comments on HN demonstrate). With Google, I have no idea what would happen. It could be anything, really.
- gremlinsinc 8y ago
  I'm surprised Amazon wasn't in the running, do they have their own VCS/Git yet? VSTS has a git clone, so it's a little weird them buying github, I can see it for the community/open source promotions, etc... Amazon could've probably integrated it well with AWS. Honestly, this gave me a push to look at other options, and I'm liking gitlab more and more for the way it's organized, it's integration w/ devops like kubernetes (don't use yet, but someday I might lol), and I really like the way you can create groups, and organize projects under different groups. The free plan also has tons of bells and whistles, for a solo dev.
  - mattnewport 8y ago
    Microsoft is a heavy user of git internally (e.g. Windows is now developed in a git repo) and though they do also have their own source control as part of VSTS they've also had first class support for git there for a while too so it isn't really that surprising.
  - chis 8y ago
    Amazon has an internal git which is pretty heavily modified for use at their scale. It combines Git and package/version control into one application that works pretty well.
    - gremlinsinc 8y ago
      FB could've been another buyer shudders, I'm surprised they haven't started moving into AWS/Cloud territory, they have a huge ecosystem around React/React Native, they have a huge place to advertise their cloud products if they launched them.
  - bb88 8y ago
    > I'm surprised Amazon wasn't in the running, do they have their own VCS/Git yet? Amazon Code Commit, but you have to sign up for it to try it. Apparently it's a great tool if you want to build AMI's with it, because the AMI's can be built securely and completely inside AWS.
devereaux 8y ago
I am personally grateful to Microsoft for 1) saving github, because I love github 2) reducing the amount of private information that will go into Google database, because I fear Google. Years ago, Google was about do no evil and Microsoft was the evil empire. It's funny how we've gone full 180.
- opan 8y ago
  Not that either is great, but I definitely still think Microsoft is more evil. At least Google contributes to Coreboot and puts it on all their Chromebooks.
- pjmlp 8y ago
  Including "This web site works best on ...".
  - devereaux 8y ago
    And google pestering me to install Chrome whenever I make the mistake of visiting google.com with Edge. Sorry, but Edge is faster and more power efficient on my Windows Tablet. So please stop asking. Actually, no. In fact, please keep asking google. It reminds me to fix my muscle memory and type duckduckgo.com when I'm not relying on the default search engine.
    - saagarjha 8y ago
      ddg.gg is shorter and redirects to the duckduckgo.com website.
      - tonysdg 8y ago
        Switch to DDG as your default, and you can search using Google semi-anonymously in even fewer keystrokes by just typing "g! <search query here>" (or just using DDG as-is).
        opan 8y ago
MaxLeiter 8y ago
they probably just would’ve made it another chat client
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nashashmi 8y ago

Sting! Just like code.Google.Com

dvfjsdhgfv 8y ago

It's hard to believe now, but it wasn't a very long time ago that Google was doing some very, very strange things trying to push Google+ down everyone's throats, especially on YouTube. I really have no idea of what they would use GitHub for. With MS it's more or less clear: they will put ads of Azure, Visual Studio and other dev-related products on GitHub; with time, they'll also use their front page to announce their dev conferences and so on. Eventually, as Nat said, their aim is to "earn the trust" of open source devs, so that they perceive MS in a positive way (they already succeeded partially, as many comments on HN demonstrate). With Google, I have no idea what would happen. It could be anything, really.

gremlinsinc 8y ago
I'm surprised Amazon wasn't in the running, do they have their own VCS/Git yet? VSTS has a git clone, so it's a little weird them buying github, I can see it for the community/open source promotions, etc... Amazon could've probably integrated it well with AWS. Honestly, this gave me a push to look at other options, and I'm liking gitlab more and more for the way it's organized, it's integration w/ devops like kubernetes (don't use yet, but someday I might lol), and I really like the way you can create groups, and organize projects under different groups. The free plan also has tons of bells and whistles, for a solo dev.
- mattnewport 8y ago
  Microsoft is a heavy user of git internally (e.g. Windows is now developed in a git repo) and though they do also have their own source control as part of VSTS they've also had first class support for git there for a while too so it isn't really that surprising.
- chis 8y ago
  Amazon has an internal git which is pretty heavily modified for use at their scale. It combines Git and package/version control into one application that works pretty well.
  - gremlinsinc 8y ago
    FB could've been another buyer shudders, I'm surprised they haven't started moving into AWS/Cloud territory, they have a huge ecosystem around React/React Native, they have a huge place to advertise their cloud products if they launched them.
- bb88 8y ago
  > I'm surprised Amazon wasn't in the running, do they have their own VCS/Git yet? Amazon Code Commit, but you have to sign up for it to try it. Apparently it's a great tool if you want to build AMI's with it, because the AMI's can be built securely and completely inside AWS.

devereaux 8y ago

I am personally grateful to Microsoft for 1) saving github, because I love github 2) reducing the amount of private information that will go into Google database, because I fear Google. Years ago, Google was about do no evil and Microsoft was the evil empire. It's funny how we've gone full 180.

opan 8y ago
Not that either is great, but I definitely still think Microsoft is more evil. At least Google contributes to Coreboot and puts it on all their Chromebooks.
pjmlp 8y ago
Including "This web site works best on ...".
- devereaux 8y ago
  And google pestering me to install Chrome whenever I make the mistake of visiting google.com with Edge. Sorry, but Edge is faster and more power efficient on my Windows Tablet. So please stop asking. Actually, no. In fact, please keep asking google. It reminds me to fix my muscle memory and type duckduckgo.com when I'm not relying on the default search engine.
  - saagarjha 8y ago
    ddg.gg is shorter and redirects to the duckduckgo.com website.
    - tonysdg 8y ago
      Switch to DDG as your default, and you can search using Google semi-anonymously in even fewer keystrokes by just typing "g! <search query here>" (or just using DDG as-is).
      - opan 8y ago

MaxLeiter 8y ago

they probably just would’ve made it another chat client

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