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It's weird how the article looks at the true reason right there and then just chooses ignores it. Microsoft bought Github in part to get developer mindshare, j
by BoorishBears 7y ago
It's weird how the article looks at the true reason right there and then just chooses ignores it.
Microsoft bought Github in part to get developer mindshare, just like VSCode, and WSL, and a ton of other great efforts have.
They literally quote Nadella saying this on an earnings call!
If Occam's razor and the money line up, why does this have to be some secret attempt to beat Gitlab?
- manojlds 7y agoYeah, Apple, Google, Amazon - the usual culprits - are the competition, not small fish like GitLab.
- DeathArrow 7y agoOpen source .NET, SQL server running on Linux, VS Code, Github, NPM, WSL, tons of opensource on Azure. I think you are right, and Microsoft is after winning developers, not fighting with Gitlab. I think this is a winning strategy and we will see even more moves in this direction. Probably more acquisitions, more open sourcing products, more free stuff, more cross platform tools targeted at developers. A developer by himself doesn't have much decision power, but if more developers prefer something, companies will follow and use Microsoft's products.
- cryptonector 7y agoDeveloper mindshare. Mindshare at all. Compare to Oracle. When Sun had been trying to win mindshare with OpenSolaris, what did Oracle do? It killed it. It also effectively killed any chance of winning that mindshare. I'm still salty about that. Open source is a business tool. A tool for building trust and mindshare.