But what will happen to my sassy commit titles/messages?!
What an absolutely insane price, great for the people who got paid but man Microsoft has a real history of overpaying for stuff, I wonder how this will shake out.
what is this analysis, you act as if they didnt just pass google in market cap.Microsoft won't risk damaging the goodwill they've been building in the open source community, at least not anytime soon.
In the longer term, they need developer support to stay relevant. Outside of PC gaming, MS does not have a good lockdown on any platforms anymore, considering they completely failed to gain a foothold in mobile.
But by controlling all these various services Microsoft is ensuring it'll remain a huge player even if desktop usage continues to decline
Our industry is really wack. We trust some rando startup with all our source code that could disappear any time and a company known to have a track record of supporting things for decades buys them out and now you all worry? Who else would you have liked to buy them?
Lots.
Lots.
Many people waiting to see how Linus Torvalds responds, too, considering the Linux kernel repo is hosted on GitHub.
what is this analysis, you act as if they didnt just pass google in market cap.
That's just a mirror. Development occurs at kernel.org. I imagine the same is true for all larger Linux projects. They host their own repos. They wouldn't be hosting them on a proprietary service.Lots.
Many people waiting to see how Linus Torvalds responds, too, considering the Linux kernel repo is hosted on GitHub.
The Linux kernel on GitHub is a mirror of the actual repository which is hosted on https://git.kernel.org/Lots.
Many people waiting to see how Linus Torvalds responds, too, considering the Linux kernel repo is hosted on GitHub.
risky move for MS, GitHub wasn't even profitable – https://www.bloomberg.com/news/arti...ding-a-coder-s-paradise-it-s-not-coming-cheap
Plus after this news many developers will migrate to GitLab and BitBucket.
GitHub =/= git.
GitHub =/= git.
Just because they bought GitHub that doesn't mean they have any control on git.
We switched to Visual Studio Team Services, which is a Microsoft product, recently, and moved our repos. I wonder what it'll look like now that MS owns both?
Only people who are clinging onto their old ideas of who Microsoft used to be. Anyone paying attention to their moves over the last 3-4 years will think it's fine.
what is this analysis, you act as if they didnt just pass google in market cap.
here's another good tweet i just saw
I'm honestly not sure how well explanations make sense for people who don't code or understand what version control is. It's basically an online repository for code, with a GUI built ontop of a popular version control software called git. It just makes viewing, sharing and manipulating code easier and more collaborativeSomeone explain what GitHub is? I thought this was about GrubHub.
here is the point . -------------> and here is youCalling github a startup is a bit disingenuous. And by "a bit" I mean "incredibly"
then why are people all up in arms about MS buying it?I'm honestly not sure how well explanations make sense for people who don't code or understand what version control is. It's basically an online repository for code, with a GUI built ontop of a popular version control software called git. It just makes viewing, sharing and manipulating code easier and more collaborative
here is the point . -------------> and here is you
then why are people all up in arms about MS buying it?
Would rather not get even more invested in a microsoft product. Plus I've already been on the edge since GitHub isn't actually open source whereas to my knowledge gitlabs is. I mostly just use GitHub since it's what my teachers prefer it school.
That's just a mirror. Development occurs at kernel.org. I imagine the same is true for all larger Linux projects. They host their own repos. They wouldn't be hosting them on a proprietary service.
Skype is still a pile of shit which tries to force internet explorer and bing during every update.
Windows still doesn't let me easily turn off the collection of personal data.
Microsoft still kill off perfectly good products and services every time they change their agenda
How have they changed (in action)?
Microsoft has been actively pushing open source technology, and the company has open sourced PowerShell, Visual Studio Code, and the Microsoft Edge JavaScript engine. Microsoft also partnered with Canonical to bring Ubuntu to Windows 10, and acquired Xamarin to assist with mobile app development. - Link
Still, this is not the first time that Microsoft has collaborated with Linux. The company was one of the sponsors of Linuxcon 2016 and supported Linux-based projects such as Node.js, OpenDaylight, the Open Container Initiative, the R Consortium and the Open API Initiative.
In March, Microsoft revealed that it was bringing its flagship SQL server to Linux. Until now, access to the server was access-only, but as of Nov. 16, the public preview of the next version of SQL is available on both Windows and Linux.
The Linux version will include standard SQL features, which accompany the Windows version such as always encrypted, row-level security and memory columnstores. Microsoft corporate Vice President Julia Liuson told Techcrunch that users will soon be able to run SQL Server on Linux and in Linux-based docker containers. This will, in turn, give them more choices in deploying databases.
In addition to the SQL Server for Linux, Microsoft has announced preview Linux support for its Azure app service. - Link
Yeah, it's as amusing as Linkedin*, Skype and Nokia acquisitions must have been for MS.
* - actually this will probably work out for MS in long-term.
Yeah, but yammer sucks.I'd be surprised tbh since Microsoft got in on Yammer for like 1.3 billion for some reason
Microsoft already offers free private (non-commercial) repos on Visual Code Team Services, I hope they bring that to Github too.
GitLab isn't really open source, not entirely at any rate.Would rather not get even more invested in a microsoft product. Plus I've already been on the edge since GitHub isn't actually open source whereas to my knowledge gitlabs is. I mostly just use GitHub since it's what my teachers prefer it school.
I am not a lawyer, but I'm pretty sure it works like this:Can anyone clarify on the legal/proprietary ramifications of MS acquiring GitHub? It's not like Microsoft now 'owns' any of the code on GitHub, but a lot of people seem to think that's the case. I don't see how this changes much, other than maybe a price hike for their services.
GitLab isn't really open source, not entirely at any rate.
And anyone who's planning to switch to GitLab because they don't like that GitHub is now owned by a huge corporation should also probably be aware that GitLab isn't perfect in that regard either. They recently got $20 million in funding from GV, the venture capital investment arm of Alphabet (Google). Before that, they also got investment from Alibaba and IBM. It's an insignificant number compared to this buyout, but I wouldn't be terribly surprised if they also got bought out at one point in the future since large companies have clearly shown interest in it
Nokia and Skype were purchased under previous leadership who is now gone. Neither really made sense to what microsoft was doing at the time.
LinkedIn and GitHub fit much more in line with the current Microsoft approach
Wikipedia lists a couple of them (the ones that say free software), but none of them really seem appealing to me (and I didn't check if all of them support git, but they probably do). Then again, I also don't particularly care about it in this case (open source is great, but not really something I'd factor in when deciding which website to use for hosting my code on) so maybe you'll find something that you like.Makes sense, it does seem the preferable alrernaltive at the moment. Do you know of a truly open source git platform?
I don't see how this changes much, other than maybe a price hike for their services.