Microsoft buys GitHub (CONFIRMED)

[CM800]

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-06-03/microsoft-is-said-to-have-agreed-to-acquire-coding-site-github

The software maker has agreed to acquire GitHub, the code-repository company popular with many software developers, and could announce the deal as soon as Monday, according to people familiar with the matter.

So, Microsoft is now talking about buying GitHub,

how do people feel about this?

[Mr. Scram]

It's probably good for Github in the long run and will inevitably mean an even more seamless integration with things like Visual Studio. It does mean Microsoft will add it to the hivemind and I'm not sure how I feel about that. I'm noticing an increasing unease about how a few companies are controlling and logging a lot of our information while doing very diverse and often unrelated things.

[Rerouter]

If windows 10 and office365 hadn't rubbed me wrong, I'd probably be OK with it, at this point I'm stuck on the Windows 7 sinking ship watching my options blip out,

Now Microsoft actively uses github in house heavily, So at a guess, they cannot do any large sweeping changes without annoying your own in house programmers, This should keep the functionality side similar,

Privacy of IP, that is more concerning. Not to mention it will probably give them insider knowledge on its competitors, e.g. what new features they have been investing time into. 

[bd139]

Github has been a bit of a turd for a while. This is just pushing people over the edge now.

[NivagSwerdna]

I'm stuggling to care about the ownership, it's just a public repo?

I have privately hosted stash and some open source projects on github and some not so open on gitlab.  they are just git repos?

[Karel]

When the deal is a fact, I'll move my repo's to another one, very likely Gitlab.

Some people say that microsoft has changed and is not that hostile to open source anymore. Could be. Could be not.
But as long as they haven't publicly apologized for their criminal behaviour and show something that restores the trust,
I don't want to deal with them.

"Trust arrives on foot but leaves on horseback"

[bd139]

Same old MS behind the scenes. In the enterprise space, we get a lot of worse shit than we ever did from them at the moment. Happy shiny facade over the same turd. They only love open source because it serves their end, for now.

Always remember Emperor Ming's wedding vows when dealing with MSFT:

[DimitriP]

Blast from the past:
https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/bharry/2015/03/12/the-future-of-team-foundation-version-control/

[langwadt]

right now on gitlab

https://www.dropbox.com/s/uzg9vc5oljr8lin/Screenshot%202018-06-03%2015.52.52.png?dl=0

[bd139]

That's because people remember this:

http://www.catb.org/esr/halloween/

They only changed tactics because that didn't work. Remember that.

[kfnight]

MS definitely made GitHub an offer they couldn't refuse. $7.5 billion is bonkers.

[apis]

If windows 10 and office365 hadn't rubbed me wrong, I'd probably be OK with it, at this point I'm stuck on the Windows 7 sinking ship watching my options blip out

Linux has a steep learning curve but it's worth it.

[ataradov]

Yeah, I'll wait a bit, but in the mean time I've created an account on BitBucket and will investigate some self-hosted options.

This sucks. Also, I'm not sure I will continue to pay for GitHub. In fact, I will not. My subscription is up for renewal in 10 days, and that's enough time to move private repos to some other service.

[bob225]

Tin foil hat on, MS are just data mining for there AI, and anything else is a Patent grab


If people don't like the 'new' GitHub they will vote with there feet imho

[DimitriP]

MS definitely made GitHub an offer they couldn't refuse. $7.5 billion is bonkers.

Another microsoft "innovation by writing a check^*"


^* used generically as a form of payment

[james_s]

Well, if they make it suck then I'll switch to a different service. If it continues to meet my needs then I'll stick with it. In the meantime I'm not going to worry about it, Github is not particularly unique.

[Mr. Scram]

Another microsoft "innovation by writing a check^*"


^* used generically as a form of payment

That's what all the big fish do. Gobble up anything interesting before it grows too big or competition gets to it.

[langwadt]

Another microsoft "innovation by writing a check^*"


^* used generically as a form of payment

That's what all the big fish do. Gobble up anything interesting before it grows too big or competition gets to it.

https://www.economist.com/business/2018/06/02/american-tech-giants-are-making-life-tough-for-startups

[chickenHeadKnob]

I hear they have done wonderful things with skype, Nokia, ect. after those acquisitions. (ducks).
I expect github to follow the same trajectory. Is there anything they touch that isn't ruined?

[timelessbeing]

Well if they make it like their other free service (hotmail), then expect ads. Unless you pay for the "pro" version.

Personally, I don't care for Microshit software. I find it very buggy and user-unfriendly.

[IanMacdonald]

Personally, I don't care for Microshit software. I find it very buggy and user-unfriendly.

Occasionally they come out with something really good, but then decide that they can make more money by forcing everyone to replace it.

Replace it with a pile of poo.

Only one of our clients has so far expressed a wish to use Windows 10. We have one Win10 computer here, it's mainly used to test websites in Edge. Rest of the time it's powered off.

On the Linux front, Mint is quite easy to transition to from Windows. Plus they seem to have solved a lot of the annoyances with the base distros like Debian, for example WiFi usually works out of box. 

[ChunkyPastaSauce]

Anyone remember Microsofts now defunct CodePlex site for open-source? https://archive.codeplex.com/
I hope they don't start removing projects they don't necessarily support (interoperability projects that allows components to be used by non-microsoft stuff, tools that modifies system in non official ways, tracking removal etc)

[maginnovision]

People keep complaining about nokia and skype. Neither of them was any good before or after so it's a moot point(I owned lumia phones exclusively from the 900 to the 1520, now using an hp elite x3). Might be a good idea to look at satya nadellas guidance since he's been in charge and stop worrying about what ballmer did/would do. Microsoft is just another company run by people.

Sometimes it pays to be a reasoning rational person instead of someone jumping on the bandwagon. Especially if it's the "durr" bandwagon expressing their dislike for the very successful microsoft corporation(+.87%). Let's not forget they've only announced their intention and the deal itself would not happen this year, or at the very end.

[ataradov]

Well, they do continue to rape Skype even now. Native version for Linux does not work anymore without a patch (they intentionally broke it, and patch disables the breakage). On Windows 10 they force Skype  from the windows store, and that piece of crap can't even minimize into the icon. It just sits there in the task bar, like anyone wants to look at it all day long.

People are weary for a reason. Microsoft has been very bad at being user friendly even recently.

[maginnovision]

Microsoft wasn't even going to bother with skype for linux, using azure resources, but people wanted it so they did. I'm not familiar with them intentionally breaking anything but a patch fixing sounds like problem solved. Complaining about UI decisions hardly qualifies as rape. I don't use or like skype and if you don't like it you shouldn't use it either.