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Why would MS want to kill github? It's huge, it serves a vital need, and if MS does manage to strangle it in some way, someone else will fork a similar service
by blisterpeanuts 5y ago
Why would MS want to kill github? It's huge, it serves a vital need, and if MS does manage to strangle it in some way, someone else will fork a similar service and everyone will flock to that, similarly to how everyone left Sourceforge for Github, as I understand it.
- Shadonototra 5y agothat kind of features turn off many developers, including me reason why i abandoned MSN messenger back in the days was because they started to mimic facebook features, same thing as skype, as people pointed in the github discussion
- blisterpeanuts 5y agoAgreed but it seems some bean counter types at Microsoft are interested in monetizing Github beyond its current subscription plans. Perhaps they didn't ask developers whether they want to be algorithmically influenced or whatever.
- prepend 5y agoMicrosoft sells MSDN subscriptions for enterprise users. And that’s more than the GitHub revenue. It’s weird in that I recently discovered a few hundred programmers who may $500-2n/year/person to Microsoft for visual Studio and more for a devops/teams foundation server/vsts and two full time admin contractors to administer the source server. There’s a lot of money in this space that Microsoft is probably losing as orgs migrate to GitHub.
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