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I'll bite, tell me (I already know they were acquired by Microsoft)....?

BlueTemplar 7y ago
Do you think that Microsoft is just doing it out of the goodness of their hearts? And that Open Source, but especially Libre Software, is going to be compatible with whatever they have in mind ?
- CWuestefeld 7y ago
  You seem to be saying that an example of MS's evil is what they're doing to github. And what they're doing to github must be evil because they're MS. That's just circular reasoning, you've going to have to provide some concrete argument.
- Dylan16807 7y ago
  K. But would you please explain "what has been happening to GitHub for the last year or so"?
- pdimitar 7y ago
  So what are they doing to GitHub that's evil, exactly?
- teh_klev 7y ago
  What have they done to GitHub that's been an act of Embrace, Extend, Extinguish? Pretty sure I'd hear it here on HN first if it was a thing. Honestly I need some evidence.
juststeve 7y ago
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/05/24/github_is_independent_despite_microsoft_acquisition_insists_ceo/ https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/05/24/github_is_independe...
- BlueTemplar 7y ago
  Wow, thanks, that "Velvet Glove" 3-parts comment is one of the best I've ever seen, all commenting sections combined !! https://forums.theregister.co.uk/forum/all/2019/05/24/github_is_independent_despite_microsoft_acquisition_insists_ceo/#c_3790513 https://forums.theregister.co.uk/forum/all/2019/05/24/github...
  - teh_klev 7y ago
    Oh dear. User comments on The Register aren't journalism. You may as well go the TheDonald on Reddit for your news.
- teh_klev 7y ago
  Not one thing in that article, is terrible. El Reg is a tabloid and they love to stir up the muck with evocative language, I don't treat them as a serious new source these days (and I've been reading The Register since 1998 when there was some semblance of respectability - such as upsetting Apple :) ). Right...so they dropped in Nat Friedman....a Mr Opensource... as CEO. I don't think you can get a bigger statement of their commitment to F/OSS than that. And um ok MS need to make some cash from their acquisition maybe by pushing Azure as a platform for open source projects - hell what did you expect? If Google or Amazon Acquired Github I'd expect the same, and they'd do the same. And you know, you as a project maintainer still have a choice. You can still deploy anywhere you like. Microsoft aren't stupid, they've for the past ten years and more promoted the open sourcing of some of their key web dev tech (initiated by Scott Guthrie, Hanselman, Rob [thingy], and another few folks I can't remember off of the top of my head). And it's a different company now. I hate to do the "appeal to authority" thing, but I'm 52 and lived through the "knife the baby" times. Microsoft for developers and open source are a hugely different company under Satya Nadella compared to the days of Ballmer and Gates.

Do you think that Microsoft is just doing it out of the goodness of their hearts? And that Open Source, but especially Libre Software, is going to be compatible with whatever they have in mind ?

CWuestefeld 7y ago
You seem to be saying that an example of MS's evil is what they're doing to github. And what they're doing to github must be evil because they're MS. That's just circular reasoning, you've going to have to provide some concrete argument.
Dylan16807 7y ago
K. But would you please explain "what has been happening to GitHub for the last year or so"?
pdimitar 7y ago
So what are they doing to GitHub that's evil, exactly?
teh_klev 7y ago
What have they done to GitHub that's been an act of Embrace, Extend, Extinguish? Pretty sure I'd hear it here on HN first if it was a thing. Honestly I need some evidence.

juststeve 7y ago

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/05/24/github_is_independent_despite_microsoft_acquisition_insists_ceo/ https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/05/24/github_is_independe...

BlueTemplar 7y ago
Wow, thanks, that "Velvet Glove" 3-parts comment is one of the best I've ever seen, all commenting sections combined !! https://forums.theregister.co.uk/forum/all/2019/05/24/github_is_independent_despite_microsoft_acquisition_insists_ceo/#c_3790513 https://forums.theregister.co.uk/forum/all/2019/05/24/github...
- teh_klev 7y ago
  Oh dear. User comments on The Register aren't journalism. You may as well go the TheDonald on Reddit for your news.
teh_klev 7y ago
Not one thing in that article, is terrible. El Reg is a tabloid and they love to stir up the muck with evocative language, I don't treat them as a serious new source these days (and I've been reading The Register since 1998 when there was some semblance of respectability - such as upsetting Apple :) ). Right...so they dropped in Nat Friedman....a Mr Opensource... as CEO. I don't think you can get a bigger statement of their commitment to F/OSS than that. And um ok MS need to make some cash from their acquisition maybe by pushing Azure as a platform for open source projects - hell what did you expect? If Google or Amazon Acquired Github I'd expect the same, and they'd do the same. And you know, you as a project maintainer still have a choice. You can still deploy anywhere you like. Microsoft aren't stupid, they've for the past ten years and more promoted the open sourcing of some of their key web dev tech (initiated by Scott Guthrie, Hanselman, Rob [thingy], and another few folks I can't remember off of the top of my head). And it's a different company now. I hate to do the "appeal to authority" thing, but I'm 52 and lived through the "knife the baby" times. Microsoft for developers and open source are a hugely different company under Satya Nadella compared to the days of Ballmer and Gates.