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This reminds me of something I often forget about. The value of GitHub to Microsoft may be significant brand-wise, but it might not be a huge revenue source com
by 0xbadcafebee 5y ago
This reminds me of something I often forget about. The value of GitHub to Microsoft may be significant brand-wise, but it might not be a huge revenue source comparatively. Even if it were a huge revenue source, most of the revenue might still be shuffled off to the corporate behemoth to cover its balance sheet rather than reinvested in improving the product. Meanwhile the actual value of GitHub to organizations around the world is probably a couple order of magnitude higher than its actual revenue.
At some point it's actually cheaper for a coalition of international organizations to fund inventing a backwards-compatible GitHub replacement that is very resilient to failure, rather than wait for GitHub to get a measely enough budget increase from Daddy Micro$oft to shore up their legacy MySQL database.
- krageon 5y ago> fund inventing a backwards-compatible GitHub replacement There are so, so many and there have been for years. Folks use Github because it's what they know, not because an alternative is hard to find.
- eek2121 5y agoGitHub is becoming a huge revenue source for them FYI. They are stealing a TON of business from competitors. Shoot, if Microsoft had a real competitor for Jira, they would probably steal even more business.
- freeone3000 5y agoWhat happened to Azure DevOps?
- 8n4vidtmkvmk 5y agofwiw i moved to gh from bitbucket after the mercurial fiasco (they decided to just straight up delete everyones repos)
- ksec 5y ago>(they decided to just straight up delete everyones repos) I had to look it up. Wow... just wow. https://bitbucket.org/blog/sunsetting-mercurial-support-in-bitbucket https://bitbucket.org/blog/sunsetting-mercurial-support-in-b...
- Aeolun 5y agoWell… Today I learned that all my old code from university is just… gone. Is it too much to expect for them not to delete data that we’ve given them for safekeeping?
- progval 5y agoThe Bitbucket folks were kind enough to delay deletion to let us at Software Heritage archive their Mercurial repositories. I only see one mercurial repo (yamlconfig) from you, though: https://archive.softwareheritage.org/browse/search/?q=https%3A%2F%2Fbitbucket.org%2Faeolun&with_visit=true&with_content=true https://archive.softwareheritage.org/browse/search/?q=https%... But you can search them directly on https://archive.softwareheritage.org/ https://archive.softwareheritage.org/ if you used a different username.
- Aeolun 5y agoOh, sweet. Let me check!
- kubanczyk 5y ago> if Microsoft had a real competitor for Jira, they would probably steal even more business. But they have a real competitor for Jira. Check out the recently beefed up GitHub Projects, my previous (scrum-ish) team was running on it and we've liked it more than Jira. Much simpler, but just enough for a dev. Didn't check out whether it's available on enterprise github though (i.e. local instances).
- sdnews 5y agoYea "backwards-compatible GitHub replacement" would grow, gain traction and ... it would be bought by Micr0s0ft anyway. Welcome in corporate world.