Microsoft Is Reportedly Talking about Buying GitHub

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Sources say that Microsoft has held talks to acquire GitHub, the popular website and cloud-based service that helps developers store and manage their code. The acquisition would grant Redmond direct access to countless developers, many of whom would be courted into using Microsoft’s services and products.

GitHub's tools have become essential to software developers, who use it to store code, keep track of updates and discuss issues. The privately held company has more than 23 million individual users in more than 1.5 million organizations. It was on track to book more than $200 million in subscription revenue, including more than $110 million from companies using its enterprise product.
 
Dead Parrot said:
If anyone has a little extra capital sitting around, there might soon be an opportunity in the source code repository area.
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There are already a few others, like BitBucket (which is publicly traded as Atlassian IIRC).

I was thinking of getting a stake in them before, this just might be the tipping point.
IcePickFreak said:
Big corps bled TV into being unwatchable, now it's the internets turn.
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I don't know, TV today is certainly better than it was 30 years ago.
 
They have VS Code for Teams or whatever the heck they rebranded it as. It's their competitor to GitHub. I can imagine if they acquire GitHub, they'll merge the brands.

I demo'd it and like most of Microsoft's interfaces, it hasn't aged well.

velusip said:
It's just a central repo and front-end. Similarly, try Gitlab -- same thing. You can even host your own and call it GitOffYourHighHorse.
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I've been doing work with a company that doesn't use much source control, so I've been demoing a lot of these. GitLab is probably the nicest I've tried (GitHub, GitLab, BitBucket, AWS-CodeCommit, MS-VST), with the best all around feature set for the price.
 
I really hope this falls through. Otherwise, GitHub is going to become bloated and low quality, like pretty much every other Microsoft product.
 
We use Gitlab at work for our CI/CD pipes. Pretty good stuff right there. I'd hate to see it get changed.
 
But why.

I'll give them VS Code, it's pretty good. Otherwise their stuff is just a bag of dicks.

VSTS *shudder*
 
Uggghhhh. Microsoft's documentation for their own developer tools are horrible as well as much of their sample code which from what I have found in the past on pretty much anything I have used has been outright unworkable or having huge issues/bugs.

I've had to completely rewrite VBA code from scratch to make it work (a calender generator for Excel) as well as program self elevation code (C++).

Pretty sure I have tried to use other samples in the past but those are the two that stick out the most.

I can only imagine how much they will screw up GitHub.
 
Eagerly awaiting Linus' response, looking forward to the fun.

RIP github.
 
MS today is not the MS of yesterday. They've done some great work with Code and TypeScript, not to mention Azure, which IMO is much easier to get up and running than AWS, even if AWS has a bit more flexibility. I'm sure Github will be fine once people stop overreacting.
 
odoe said:
MS today is not the MS of yesterday. They've done some great work with Code and TypeScript, not to mention Azure, which IMO is much easier to get up and running than AWS, even if AWS has a bit more flexibility. I'm sure Github will be fine once people stop overreacting.
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They feed money to patent trolls and extort money from companies to not sue them. Still the same old scumbags.

Oh and steal peoples's code without credit:

https ://np.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/8nztqi/i_think_its_time_i_publicly_shared_about_how/


https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1002696910266773505.html
 
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Microsoft has fukked up Skype. We actually had to stop using it. It won't even let us login here lately. Just empty box.

Microsoft is horrible.
 
My problem with Microsoft is their version revision, their not-invented-here habits, and their total reimagining of the workspace. Perl is Perl. C++ is C++. Python is Python. Even Javascript and HTML have managed to be recognizable from past to present. But the shit MS cranks out has to change so dramatically, their documentation is hugely bloated and cumbersome, their libraries are FUCKED BEYOND FUCKED, and then they version-out their code so that their older coding products no longer work with the current versions of Windows.

What do they even want with GitHub? If they can't make good web-based documentation on their own, what makes them think that GitHub will help?
 
gitlab and bb both let you host for free
i know bb, unlike guthub lets you have private repos for free.
 
Bitbucket is friendlier for private repos for small teams. Unlimited for 5 users I believe. It's just not as polished as github.
 
This will be interesting if true. I wonder how the golang community will handle it as github seems to be the defacto repo service (dep tool)
 
SixFootDuo said:
Microsoft has fukked up Skype. We actually had to stop using it. It won't even let us login here lately. Just empty box.

Microsoft is horrible.
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Skype broke on linux if you didn't update the version manually. After the update it started working again.
 
Visual Studio Team Services... doo doo.
Github... not doo doo.

Some friendly advice for Microsoft: If you acquire something that isn't doo doo, don't put the manager of your doo doo product in charge of it.

Also, acquire Zenhub while you are it. Zenhub makes Github what all repo interfaces should aspire to be.
 
brucethemoose said:
I don't know, TV today is certainly better than it was 30 years ago.
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Doesn't feel like it to me. Anywhere I go, it seems to be people watching the same set of 5 shows about remodelling and then selling a house or remodelling a house on behalf of a client and then showing the house. Flip this, reno that, fixer upper this. Watching people watch cable TV is painful. There's some great series out there or fairly recent still like GoT, Dexter, etc but I'm amazing how many of these go underwatched in favor of seeing the umteenth billion house get reno'd.
 
ssnyder28 said:
There just so much more content now that it just seems better. There is definitely a ton of garbage out there now.
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Yeah that's a huge part of it. Far more rough to pick gems out of.

Also, picking them out and actually watching them is easier than ever. You have the whole internet to find stuff you'd like to watch, and (reasonably priced) streaming services and DVRs to actually watch them as opposed to being at the mercy of some corp's TV schedule.

WBurchnall said:
Doesn't feel like it to me. Anywhere I go, it seems to be people watching the same set of 5 shows about remodelling and then selling a house or remodelling a house on behalf of a client and then showing the house. Flip this, reno that, fixer upper this. Watching people watch cable TV is painful. There's some great series out there or fairly recent still like GoT, Dexter, etc but I'm amazing how many of these go underwatched in favor of seeing the umteenth billion house get reno'd.
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Indeed. Just because the good stuff is out there doesn't mean most people will take advantage of it, Sturgeon's Law and all.
 
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