Microsoft agrees to acquire GitHub
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Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire Coding Site GitHub[^] [Bloomberg] /ravi
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Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire Coding Site GitHub[^] [Bloomberg] /ravi
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Why does this make me concerned?
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Why does this make me concerned?
Because someone at Microsoft will think it's a great idea to re-implement GitHub using COM. (I actually use GitHub for a half-dozen projects and half of those have alternative avenues of download, so I don't really care one way or another.)
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Because someone at Microsoft will think it's a great idea to re-implement GitHub using COM. (I actually use GitHub for a half-dozen projects and half of those have alternative avenues of download, so I don't really care one way or another.)
Joe Woodbury wrote:
to re-implement GitHub using COM.
:laugh: :laugh: That made my day.
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Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire Coding Site GitHub[^] [Bloomberg] /ravi
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This bothers me. Besides the obvious, such as how this will affect the pricing structure and quality of the service (I rate GitHub as a very high quality service), I just don't think that Microsoft should own something where, if I were to guess, the number of repos having nothing to do with the Microsoft technology stack far outweighs the repos that do. While very very unlikely, what's to prevent Microsoft from booting out any non-Microsoft repo? Nothing really, except PR. The last thing I want to see is GitHub "integrated" with LinkedIn, or Skype, or some other ridiculous merging of disparate apps. We'll see how it goes, but I'll be ready to bail from GitHub and move my repos to Bitbucket or similar if I don't like the direction Microsoft takes things. Then again, how hard can it be to set up my own git server to host my own repos? ;)
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Why does this make me concerned?
Because at the same time they've registered TFShub.com and pointed it at the same servers. :laugh: :laugh:
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Cue the creation of yet another repo service, because it won't be owned by Microsoft.
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Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire Coding Site GitHub[^] [Bloomberg] /ravi
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Me disturb: they'll screw it up like they screwed up Skype.
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Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire Coding Site GitHub[^] [Bloomberg] /ravi
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Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire Coding Site GitHub[^] [Bloomberg] /ravi
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They screwed up GotDotNet back in the day, which was another coding site. I really hope they don't screw up GitHub but I'm holding my breath.
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This bothers me. Besides the obvious, such as how this will affect the pricing structure and quality of the service (I rate GitHub as a very high quality service), I just don't think that Microsoft should own something where, if I were to guess, the number of repos having nothing to do with the Microsoft technology stack far outweighs the repos that do. While very very unlikely, what's to prevent Microsoft from booting out any non-Microsoft repo? Nothing really, except PR. The last thing I want to see is GitHub "integrated" with LinkedIn, or Skype, or some other ridiculous merging of disparate apps. We'll see how it goes, but I'll be ready to bail from GitHub and move my repos to Bitbucket or similar if I don't like the direction Microsoft takes things. Then again, how hard can it be to set up my own git server to host my own repos? ;)
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Marc Clifton wrote:
Then again, how hard can it be to set up my own git server to host my own repos?
If you do it, get bigger hardware... I strongly think, many other users would join you ;) :-D
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