As someone who hosts quite a few open source projects on github, this is pretty disappointing to me. Microsoft has some great open source projects like typescript, vs code, etc but I feel they...
As someone who hosts quite a few open source projects on github, this is pretty disappointing to me. Microsoft has some great open source projects like typescript, vs code, etc but I feel they will turn the website into something like the mess skype currently is. Considering moving to another site at this point, although we'll see.
I think it makes sense for MS strategy. They went back to their business user roots with the LinkedIn buy. Also, a foundation of Microsoft was having great tools and relations with developers....
I think it makes sense for MS strategy. They went back to their business user roots with the LinkedIn buy. Also, a foundation of Microsoft was having great tools and relations with developers. They do have some great engineering, which may be an unpopular opinion, but I think it’s true. So I think that owning one of the most popular dev tools makes sense.
Now from a GitHub user POV? I’m not sure. GitHub had plenty of money before, I’m not sure what else having MS’s largess could support.
But this is what happens when you take venture money. They want their exit.
What worries me the most is that Microsoft already has VSTS, a direct competitor to Github. This just gives Microsoft a bigger monopoly in the tech industry and especially in software development...
What worries me the most is that Microsoft already has VSTS, a direct competitor to Github. This just gives Microsoft a bigger monopoly in the tech industry and especially in software development tools. Another issue is that Github (the company) just makes Github; Microsoft makes... a lot of stuff. I don't know about you, but if I had a project that was competing with Microsoft, I wouldn't want to host the source code on my competitor's service.
I'm sure the biggest reason for this accquisition wasn't the technology, but the userbase and codebases. This is a huge amount of data that they can use.
Good thing GitLab has a good Github importer, I'm glad to see that their homepage prominently displays "Migrate from Github to GitLab".
Thankfully this is just speculative at the moment. I don't think msft will pull the trigger on it because that 2Bn value is from a couple years ago and the new number is closer to 5. I've heard...
Thankfully this is just speculative at the moment. I don't think msft will pull the trigger on it because that 2Bn value is from a couple years ago and the new number is closer to 5. I've heard that's too much.
Also VSTS/VSO is... Not so good. At least as much as I've used it, it's been a major pain in the ass. It tries to blend jira and git, but fails at both.
I would switch over to gitlab, but it has its own pitfalls. With that said though, gitlab is more open so the because changes could happen relatively quickly/easily if the acquisition does happen.
As someone who hosts quite a few open source projects on github, this is pretty disappointing to me. Microsoft has some great open source projects like typescript, vs code, etc but I feel they will turn the website into something like the mess skype currently is. Considering moving to another site at this point, although we'll see.
Gitlab ftw
Why? I can't come up with a good reason (for users).
I think it makes sense for MS strategy. They went back to their business user roots with the LinkedIn buy. Also, a foundation of Microsoft was having great tools and relations with developers. They do have some great engineering, which may be an unpopular opinion, but I think it’s true. So I think that owning one of the most popular dev tools makes sense.
Now from a GitHub user POV? I’m not sure. GitHub had plenty of money before, I’m not sure what else having MS’s largess could support.
But this is what happens when you take venture money. They want their exit.
What worries me the most is that Microsoft already has VSTS, a direct competitor to Github. This just gives Microsoft a bigger monopoly in the tech industry and especially in software development tools. Another issue is that Github (the company) just makes Github; Microsoft makes... a lot of stuff. I don't know about you, but if I had a project that was competing with Microsoft, I wouldn't want to host the source code on my competitor's service.
I'm sure the biggest reason for this accquisition wasn't the technology, but the userbase and codebases. This is a huge amount of data that they can use.
Good thing GitLab has a good Github importer, I'm glad to see that their homepage prominently displays "Migrate from Github to GitLab".
Thankfully this is just speculative at the moment. I don't think msft will pull the trigger on it because that 2Bn value is from a couple years ago and the new number is closer to 5. I've heard that's too much.
Also VSTS/VSO is... Not so good. At least as much as I've used it, it's been a major pain in the ass. It tries to blend jira and git, but fails at both.
I would switch over to gitlab, but it has its own pitfalls. With that said though, gitlab is more open so the because changes could happen relatively quickly/easily if the acquisition does happen.
Edit: grammar is hard on phones.
and let's not talk about Sunrise or Wunderlist ... even the "new" Microsoft with Nadella at the head is a destructor of acquisitions.