Microsoft Looking to Buy GitHub?

The Jobs throwing parts and pieces at people, while potentially exaggerated, was a huge difference. Today, you see videos all the time of Apple parts breaking, there’s a class action because of their faulty keyboards (could be wording it incorrectly). When Jobs was head of the show, that rarely, if never would have happened. Dude would never have lowered his standards for buzzwords and hype. They were THE developer platform, THE artsy fartsy platform, and pretty darn good when it came to sysadmin tasks in a hybrid environment.

Today, Microsoft is running circles around Apple on the dev side of things. Apple has dropped the ball more than once in the recent years, and Microsoft has done more than taken advantage; they’ve appealed to open source devs around the world. VS Code is a prime example, as is Azure slowly chipping away at AWS’s market share.

That’s a walking contradiction

I have to agree.

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I would suggest reading the entire thread. Ballmer is gone, and he’s not coming back.

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Another Microsoft update

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“GitHub will be led by CEO Nat Friedman, an open source veteran and founder of Xamarin”, damn, that’s awesome. The co-founder of GitHub is being brought on as a Fellow at Microsoft.

Also:

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I wonder if they’ll merge VSC and Atom. Considering they’re competitors.

That’s an interesting one as vsc is just better performance wise, and better supported on more distros than atom. If it were me I’d take atoms good features merge them and dump atom and watch the atom users lose their minds

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Agreed.

Most people are moving to code for reasons you stated above. I know I did.

I just don’t understand the hysteria of people when MS announces the buyout of Github. It’s not like anything’s wrong yet and if there is, chances are competition.

Gitlab was hosted on github until it could could be hosted on gitlab.

Not really a kek.

Probably because they take way more from the consumer than is necessary.

More

https://natfriedman.github.io/hello/

I wasn’t expecting that lol

I know the Skype thing has been brought up a quickly been discarded as the irrelevance to this discussion that is very much is… BUT, They said the exact same thing. That’s is the only thing Skype is relevant for this for now. And it may not even be anything at all (nothing burger, as I see here often). Just keeping the facts, not saying this is bad… Please don’t g-hit me.

That he would, even to his own companies detriment. Like keeping the resolution and aspect ratio of the current devices as the standard for all future devices. That took a very shot time to go away along with him, again no hate. It was a huge benefit to the company to have devices that could compete on things that the consumer thought was relevant. Even when they might not have actually been… 4k phones… Just stop it.

I mean no inflammatory reaction with this at all just adding to the discussion. I do not use Github not have a stake in Microsoft. Hopefully my words are not misinterpreted. It is so sad I have to qualify these replies.

Two different takes.


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You mean “Embrace, Extend, Extinguish”. And indeed the last major example I can think of is nokia so somewhat of a while ago all right.


b. To the extent necessary to provide the Services to you and others, to protect you and the Services, and to improve Microsoft products and services, you grant to Microsoft a worldwide and royalty-free intellectual property license to use Your Content, for example, to make copies of, retain, transmit, reformat, display, and distribute via communication tools Your Content on the Services.

So no.

What? Nokia? They bought Nokia because it was already struggling due to using windows phone, and they actually tried to make it successful. That was not a case of trying to extinguish.

Nokias purchase was the “extinguish” part in so far that it followed the embrace and extend. The embrace was the introduction of Stephen Elop as the next CEO and the extend was when Elop made the decision to move fully to using Windows Phone for all Nokia phones hence forth.

But I agree, nokia was failing even before all of that.