Microsoft acquires GitHub

WTF? The enemy of open source acquiring github???

Discuss.

Its not even 1 April!

Yeah…sad day.
Not sure about future

Maybe 5 years ago I’d have agreed but time have changed.

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Its said Microsoft is taking IBM business model. Selling service not product. This provide some comfort but the worry is large company aquiring vital tool.

Even Google had aquired GitHub I would worry. Some concern they try to leverage this somehow

some of the devs are moving to gitlab because of this although I am told that everything will remain on github as well going forward.

Like IBM have screwed WUnderground!

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I don’t see the issue.
Yes Microsoft used to have sort of “the open source enemy”. But it change a lot during last years.
If they mess with the current key features, users will move to other solution naturally.

I’m really optimistic with this news.

I doubt MS will change how it works, it knows it would be suicide to mess with it. its even its biggest user.
Even some of the nets biggest open source advocates don’t have a problem with it.

My take on it is i hope MS use it as some form of package repository for a package manager like lInux has, they have Nuget which could be incorporated somehow and using their new deployment tools like autopilot and intune, make the provisioning of windows machines easier without the need for on prem infrastructure.
but i could be just wrong

This is great news. MS is not what is was 10 years ago.

Even if Microsoft has changed and became a fan of open-source, my feelings about Microsoft being a monopoly and their so-called “de-facto standards” (Microsoft Office, anyone) is still the same.

And I reserve judgement in welcoming Microsoft for acquiring GitHub.

Well… This is definitely better than GitHub going bankrupt.

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I hear the “Microsoft has changed” cries, but I have been trying to avoid microsoft since I started using Linux in the 90’s and it is hard to mistrust the instincts that a long time in he open source community has engendered.

I hope this works out better than I initially suspected.

I’m not afraid of MS as such, but their reputation for killing services and dropping support as they switch to the latest flavour without so much as a warning … well it doesn’t make me happy.

Example ?
Skype is a mess, because they decided to rename their existing VoIP tool (Lync) and keep the original Skype as well.

Another problem is that they tend to overengineer things, which causes simple things to become needlessly complex.

If they ever dare to mix with TFS and GitHub the endresult won’t be pretty.

OTOH … if this means they will kill TFS (or at least the repository part of it) and go forward with Git as a repository … then things could become pretty awesome.