ban people from using the internet so i dont get to see "The end is near"-yelling or "why is my pus polarized?"-questions from beamin.
they'll conveniently ignore the facts.
The internet loves a hate wagon. It helps that they have a mantra they can scream from the rooftops too.
Right, right: if a company changes their CEO, it automatically means they will no longer repeat their decades-long anticompetitive practices. Because, uh, because they are better people now. Right?
Us "the end is near" and "mantra repeaters" are only extrapolating MS's actions based on its past business practices. There is zero evidence to expect the acquisition of GitHub to lead to anything positive to anybody except Microsoft. The extremely high acquisition price furthermore indicates that MS expects to profit hugely from this move, as otherwise their leadership would be on the hook for shareholders for wasting a billion dollars.
So, if we stay strictly logical, and use Einstein's definition of idiocy, you guys are idiots, for ignoring we are only applying logic and extrapolating from past actions, to predict the outcome of this acquisition. I don't know where your hopefulness regarding Microsoft behaviour stems from, and although I could speculate, only you know. What you do not seem to realize, is that your optimism is
not realistic, and not based on reality. It is not a place where I would laugh at others.