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Microsoft has acquired GitHub for 7.5 billion dollars
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they're pushing to be a more software service company. and a shitton of software utilizes github. they're trying to become the walmart of software services. anything you need, we got it. and not locked down to windows anymore!
What a turn of events. Five years ago they were resisting git a lot in favour of their home brew solutions.
Not surprised, very interested to see what they do with it
Please God no
Yeah this isn't the 90s Microsoft - Microsoft contributes more than Apple, Google, Oracle or IBM to open-source projects on GitHub.
I think this is a great move for GitHub, though I'm already seeing some (older) open-source devs foaming at the mouth over this.
Makes perfect sense. I hope they just let the folks at GitHub continue to create a good service now they have a company like Microsoft behind them.
I'd be surprised tbh since Microsoft got in on Yammer for like 1.3 billion for some reason
I'd reckon nothing will happen, discriminating on language is not something git is designed to do.
I don't think Discord wants to sell atm.
I've never used GitHub and only know of it casually as a platform for open source code that can be grabbed, edited, and re-uploaded by just about anyone. Personally, for them to be bought out by MS seems like a bad thing overall as a gut feeling.
Maybe a solid alternative will rise up if need be, but having something like that be absorbed by one of the big tech entities seems kind of negative, not positive. I may just be thinking pessimistically though.
Maybe a solid alternative will rise up if need be, but having something like that be absorbed by one of the big tech entities seems kind of negative, not positive. I may just be thinking pessimistically though.
for when you just need you Xbox to run that script that stitches together the topographical and elevation data of Wyoming you just downloaded, of course.
True, the philosophies here really don't align.
Replacement, I dunno. I used GitLab before. https://about.gitlab.com/
I'm never a fan of these sorts of consolidations of the market.
I wonder if the Windows command line will get native git support?
I wonder if the Windows command line will get native git support?
Microsoft is a huge player in open source these days. I don't see this affecting GitHub much.
They already have their own Slack equivalent, though that doesn't rule out an acquisition anyway.
MS buying Discord after Skype (which they own) lost a big chunk of its user base to it would certainly be amusing.
MS has been embracing open source tech for their development for years now and the latest version of their .NET framework is open source and can run on Linux. That's the entire reason why they were interested in buying Github in the first place.
This doesn't reflect the current reality. MS is huge in open source now. .NET core is open source, and they are behind one of the biggest programming editors in the game at the moment (Visual Studio Code) which is open source.
That isn't exactly true anymore. That said, there's a huge culture chasm between what GH represents and what MS does in regards to OSS, but what you posted above is FUD.