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Post by _Windows on Jun 4, 2018 17:10:52 GMT
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Post by StevenNL2000 on Jun 4, 2018 17:38:21 GMT
Read: we're going to make it as hard as possible to connect services to your repositories that we don't make money from.
I'm sure Google isn't happy with this either, considering they shut down their GitHub competitor and encouraged everyone to move to GitHub.
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Post by Premintex on Jun 4, 2018 17:54:24 GMT
There goes another good thing to be assed just like what happened with minecraft
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Post by Polaris Seltzeris on Jun 4, 2018 21:00:08 GMT
This is bad news for closed source projects if Microsoft starts fucking with GitHub's privacy policy, and if they microsoftize the entire website by requiring Microsoft accounts and changing the UI then I'm done with the site.
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Post by LightUk on Jun 4, 2018 21:04:22 GMT
Just wondering, why do they want GitHub?
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Post by Pramire on Jun 5, 2018 2:14:29 GMT
Just wondering, why do they want GitHub? For Microsoft Cloud, Azure and don’t forget, Electron is a GitHub technology. Google is probably shooting themselves in the foot for shutting down their competitor and moving to GitHub. Can’t wait for “sign in with your Microsoft account to access all of GitHub” |
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Post by CoolJWB on Jun 5, 2018 7:04:58 GMT
We are all
doomed.
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Post by Fleek on Jun 5, 2018 8:05:55 GMT
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Post by Cowgomooo12 on Jun 5, 2018 8:32:46 GMT
Do not forget Microsoft's policy of EEE: "Embrace, extend, and exterminate". Paul Maritz also explained to Intel representatives that Microsoft’s response to the browser threat was to “embrace, extend, extinguish”; in other words, Microsoft planned to “embrace” existing Internet standards, “extend” them in incompatible ways, and thereby “extinguish” competitors. www.justice.gov/sites/default/files/atr/legacy/2006/06/01/V-A.pdf |
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Post by Cowgomooo12 on Jun 5, 2018 8:33:57 GMT
This is bad news for closed source projects if Microsoft starts fucking with GitHub's privacy policy, and if they microsoftize the entire website by requiring Microsoft accounts and changing the UI then I'm done with the site. You mean like how they fucked over Skype, right? |
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Post by Tobi on Jun 5, 2018 8:42:00 GMT
This is bad news for closed source projects if Microsoft starts fucking with GitHub's privacy policy, and if they microsoftize the entire website by requiring Microsoft accounts and changing the UI then I'm done with the site. You mean like how they fucked over Skype, right? I have a feeling that they're going to make this a paid service like Xbox Live, mainly because it's open source and could potentially provide backdoors to Microsoft Windows development, which if it is the case I will be abaolutely pissed and probably the rest of the executives and developers. They didn't do that with Skype but yet again they could be planning something on the upbringing of Windows 10's paid services as originally planned. |
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Post by Video on Jun 5, 2018 8:47:09 GMT
Oh so the website will be unstable, ugly, and sketchy like all of Microsoft's other products?
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Post by _Windows on Jun 5, 2018 16:55:04 GMT
That's just a PR article. I would take it with a grain of salt. |
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Post by Hockey on Jun 5, 2018 22:01:06 GMT
On the other hand, they'll now have a corporate sponsor that funnels a lot more money in. We'll probably see more features added before they monetize it. GitHub is a community of developers, for developers, and by developers. I have full confidence that if GitHub goes south, a new, strong, and open source alternative will find its way to the public quickly. I would point to Gitlab, but it's just okayish, and it's only partially open source.
The biggest thing for me is that Microsoft will be able to peek into their competitors private repositories. That, to me, is the scariest part of this deal. I think that it's in Microsoft's best interest to keep GitHub the thriving community it is today. Their plan isn't to monetize it with ads, their plan is to integrate it within Office/Business products that Microsoft already owns. If they kill the product before they can sell it to Enterprise users, the acquisition was pointless.
Then again, this is all speculation. Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said this about Linux: "Linux is a cancer that attaches itself in an intellectual property sense to everything it touches." He later likened it to communism. It's hard to believe a company with this bad of a track record with open source will remain faithful.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 5, 2018 22:05:38 GMT
On the other hand, they'll now have a corporate sponsor that funnels a lot more money in. We'll probably see more features added before they monetize it. GitHub is a community of developers, for developers, and by developers. I have full confidence that if GitHub goes south, a new, strong, and open source alternative will find its way to the public quickly. I would point to Gitlab, but it's just okayish, and it's only partially open source. The biggest thing for me is that Microsoft will be able to peek into their competitors private repositories. That, to me, is the scariest part of this deal. I think that it's in Microsoft's best interest to keep GitHub the thriving community it is today. Their plan isn't to monetize it with ads, their plan is to integrate it within Office/Business products that Microsoft already owns. If they kill the product before they can sell it to Enterprise users, the acquisition was pointless. Then again, this is all speculation. Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said this about Linux: "Linux is a cancer that attaches itself in an intellectual property sense to everything it touches." He later likened it to communism. It's hard to believe a company with this bad of a track record with open source will remain faithful. I personally had many issues with gitlab which is why I switched to GitHub. I hope someone makes a true GitHub competitor. I think Microsoft is doing this just for access to private repos and don't forget that Microsoft wants you to know that they really really love Linux |
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