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I've avoided MSFT like the plague for 5 years. When they bought LinkedIn, deleted account. When they bought GitHub, stated using BitBucket. Same with Google. Wh
by kylebenzle 6y ago
I've avoided MSFT like the plague for 5 years. When they bought LinkedIn, deleted account. When they bought GitHub, stated using BitBucket. Same with Google. When they went to the dark side I moved to FastMail and DDG.
Long story short: don't give your time and money to evil corporations.
- azangru 6y agoI'm sure this has nothing to do with Microsoft.
- ISL 6y agoMicrosoft owns GitHub, so any GitHub problem is, ultimately, Microsoft's problem.
- azangru 6y agoFair :-) I meant, nothing to do with Github's acquisition by Microsoft.
- quadrifoliate 6y agoYou'd be surprised how much an acquisition changes priorities. Suddenly the CEO of your company is a middle manager at the acquiring behemoth who is at the whims of their generous crop of Senior Vice Presidents, and wants to keep them happy because s/he has a ton of unvested stock on the line. I don't know what the precise cause of this bad support is, but I would wager that an acquisition by Microsoft will shift GitHub's priorities away from Support and towards Enterprise Sales.
- zeusk 6y agoJust so you know how distant Microsoft is keeping this acquisition, Github employees don't show up on the default lookup tool (Who). I'm sure they're pedalling Azure, but other than that Github is still very much independent.
- callalex 6y agoIs that true for how hiring is done and how funds are allocated? In this case customer support funds?