your (probably) using github for free so the whole royalty thing makes sense
Looks like i’m going to have to start migrating to GitLab tomorrow morning.
Acquired for $7.5b
I’m loving the nasty comments elsewhere and the ‘time to move to gitlab because it’s open source’ because GitHub was open source before somehow…
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Outraged devs moving to gitlab is like the nerd #deletefacebook. Everybody’s going to complain about it, nobody’s going to do it.
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I don’t see a reason for the hassle for right now, need to see what they do with it.
Supposedly the GitHub team will “stay independent” so…
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Pretty much. Having a quick look. GitHub people gains 7.5b in Microsoft stock, whilst still working independently as GitHub. It’s a good deal for them, it should also help stabilise their loss in profits that they’ve been having issues with as well as likely be able to offer more for their services (ms visual studio, azure options for Devs maybe for example) and offer people better value for money.
Hopefully this will also give them opertunities to expand there core services which seem to lack behind some of the competition.
I don’t really get the kickback which is a bit rediculous. GitHub isn’t open source, mind you those wanting to go to gitlab forget it’s also not fully open source.
The silly thing about it all as well, gitlab plan to IPO in 2020 , what will people do then, move again?
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They ALWAYS say nothing will change. That is very rarely true past a time horizon of 1 year, when the principals of the acquired company are allowed to quit. That’s when they generally clean house. So I would revisit that come June 2019.
There’s a difference between a company going IPO and their product…
Red Hat is pretty big in the Linux world, or so I heard 
Sidenote, what part of GitLab isn’t open? I haven’t really looked at it, but can’t you even self host it?
They didn’t say nothing will change, they said the team is going to stay independent. That is not the same thing.
GitHub has to change. It’s not profitable, so fully expect change. They have to offer more value for money.
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They absolutely will change, yes. Previously they were burning through investor capital, paying for users to pump up their acquisition value. Now that those investors cashed out, Microsoft is footing the bills and they are a public company accountable to their shareholders.
GitHub isn’t a public company as far as I know, and with the acquisition it’s still Microsoft that is accountable, not GitHub on its own.
I don’t see why that’s a meaningful point, but it is certainly correct.
Because the GitHub team/“division” can still do terrible and it won’t matter to shareholders as long as the overall company (read: Microsoft) is profitable and growing.
That isn’t how it works, they have to account for every business unit within the company. They have a fiduciary duty to server shareholders’ interests.
Well at least it will be better than when Microsoft tried to compete against it with CodePlex
You do realise that GitHub was competing against Codeplex right? Codeplex was 2 years before GitHub.
Mabad, and thank you for correcting.
Either way, buying out GitHub makes sense.
I’m getting flashbacks of YouTube before google.
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YouTube was kinda shitty before google though…
Now it’s kinda shitty again, but round goes the circle.
CodePlex was seen as a trojan horse by OSS developers, because… it was. That was many years ago, not Satya’s Microsoft.
I mean, I wouldn’t trust Steve Ballmer to watch my fries when I go to take a piss. He has shark eyes and a grin full of teeth.
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