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SMLR Fresh Looks: Episode 256 Microsoft Gets Git

Engadget Article: "Microsoft has discussed buying code giant GitHub"

A Reddit Discussion on the topic

[ricktroth]

The sky is not falling, but I have concerns.

GitLab has an "import from GitHub feature" which can (while it lasts) snag your GitHub projects ... including history, comments, contributors, everything ... as a means of "moving".

For the moment, I have no desire to "move". What worries me is that the new landlords will eventually close that door. (And other changes they're prone to make. They similarly grabbed LinkedIn like real estate moguls. But they relinquished NBC after a while.)

[samd]

When talking about commercialisation, GitHub already has paid subscriptions to unlock private repositories and the like, so "GitHub 365" already exists, just as there is both a free (and not fully featured) and paid version of office in Office Online and 365.

[schnozberry]

Thanks for another fair and objective analysis Tom, I really appreciate your attitude and outlook towards life and the industry.

[den]

All part of Microsofts plan for world domination

[mustdieproductions]

Don't be naive and fool yourself into believing that Microsoft ever has good intentions about its competiton. Anything it gets its hands on and can call it's property is always at its mercy, putting it under the scrutiny of their perogative (read: "Embrace, Expand and Extinguish").

Microsoft is in the business of making money, not appealing to the wants and whims of their consumer base. Even if that consumer base is beginning to include niche groups that appreciate open-source software, their primary objective is to ensure a profit can be secured from it and that that profit can be maximized until proven no longer profitable to continue supporting. We all know, Microsoft included, that anything, if not everything, that is open-source is the anathema to their business directive. It's a natural match made in Hell.

Regardless of what they choose to do, there's no denying that Github is going to change forever if they end up calling Microsoft their parent company.

[charliebrownau]

4:01 - Also Linkin offers ZERO PRIVACY for a site that you upload your resume/cv, ANYONE has access to your person info

[saywhat]

So, I assume their strategy here is to steer ideas, people and programming into their ecosystem by getting early knowledge of OS projects being uploaded and maybe potentially buying them before they get officially published as OS as well as working to ensure most of these projects get compiled options with as much Windows telemetry as possible. Just an initial guess at their angle of manipulation and they always have one.

[Noodles.FreeUkraine]

<looks at Wunderlist> <looks at Microsoft ToDo> Yes, they destroy everything they touch.

[abdraoufx]

Just make windows open source.
It's not like Bill Gates wants more money.

[pyromanci]

It was posted this morning that they are acquiring github. I personal have started pulling all my personal projects off github.
Forks unless i'm actively contributing to them I'm also deleting.

Given what they have done with Windows 10, Skype, One Drive, basically any they touch. I don't trust them and i feel they will ultimately destroy the platform. Forced Updates anybody?

[blackfireburn]

Were they using aws for hosting? I guess that's going to change over to azure.

[tuttocrafting]

I moved all to a private gitlab server. just to be sure.

[matthawaii]

When you are watching a video and you try to change the tabs

[tad]

Skype is pretty much dead. It has issues doing the most basic of things, like actually delivering messages. I bailed years ago when message delivery reliability on group chat was sub 5% (eg, 95% of messages in or out would not get delivered at all or after many days or weeks of delay).

Old MS that bought Skype like to break everything they acquired (like every game developer they acquired). New MS seems very away of the destructive nature that had in the past with distroying properties and assets they bought and have become very sensitive to try not to upset what momentum the new acquisition. A good example of this is Minecraft where MS is still supporting and allowing the primary Java version to be actively developed and not second classed by the console, mobile, or Windows Store editions, though I believe they do push the non-Java ones more.

If GitHub is give the Minecraft treatment where its allow to manage itself mostly interdependently while MS add new additional revenue streams to it on the side in some way, it should be fine. But if it gets the Skype "integration", might be a good time to consider migrating GitLabs or even Bitbucket. The biggest tell will be if MS makes any noises about changes to license requirements or TOS changes about licensing.

[KenCharlesTheGreat]

I don't see how MS would want to do anything to make opensource flourish

[GeneralDon]

So if we didn't want to use github, is there an alternative? Open Source?

[stuartwhittaker]

could be worse, facebook might have bought it :)

[markhaus]

I don’t buy the “Github is not open source themselves therefore it’s ok for Microsoft to buy them”argument. Github doesn’t have an incentive to take sides in software disputes. Microsoft has an interest in many markets of software. Conflicts of interest are pretty much inevitable with github. Will they leave atom alone? What will happen if atom gains more support than VSCode? More bad evidence exists than good. What about golang? They are primarily developed on github and a fairly direct competitor to net core and C sharp. Again, there’s some good people in Microsoft but there were good people there during the Ballmer days as well. I don’t know other how they will behave there’s good signals and bad ones and that’s the problem. We don’t know. But what we do know is having a competitor like fit lab or bit bucket forces them to be honest at least as long as they are real competitors.

[MyLastSong]

I personally don't have an issue with it as long as it stays free to use which i imagine it will

[ThisIsFro]

Microsoft is the #1 contributor to open source projects on github, I dont have a problem with this. Most likely they only want it to add integration to Azure to help against AWS