I disagree with the hate on MS on buying GitHub. Could you imagine if facebook decided to do that? Or Google? At least MS is straight up about its business model: give me money I'll give you products

That's why also preffer Microsoft over the others. We aren't the products.

There are other rants with better reasons. I'm pointing out the fact they are not an advertisement company

To be fair I do not use windows 10

@RantSomeWhere and also, they get every opportunity to rape your privacy to make more money with ads! That shit is freaking 100 U$, I’m not even talking in CAN! And you need to pay 100$ more for the pro version to get support for more RAM (even if it doesn’t change anything in development) and a little bit of control over your system, that shit is garbage!

My logic is that if Microsoft buys it over and let’s GitHub do its own thing so be it. If you look at the board on the Linux foundation, there are reps from AT&T, Facebook, Google - and yet people have no issue with it (also so either here or on Reddit that MS pay a large chunk of Torvalds’s salary but not sure on that validity).
I doubt they would buy a $2 billion company without knowing what they are getting into or try to commercialise it immediately and basically kill off the majority of its users.

@nikmanG contributions isn’t owning the stuff, and Microsoft have proven many times to overcommercialize stuff and change what it’s users liked about it (Skype, minecraft, etc.)

The thing about github is that it is a single company. Yes, it does partnerships, but it ain’t the same thing. They don’t push to use other stuff. M$ objective is clearly to use github as a way to attract more devs to their product, losing in cross-compatibility and all that stuff

Microsoft kills acquisitions. RIP Skype, Nokia, Mojang and many others. I would hate to see GitHub go in a similar way.

@-vim- Skype and Nokia - maybe. Nokia I’ll surrender but Skype I think was bloated before MS acquired it, just no real alternatives. MS just made it more business focused and I would dare say suffered a lesser blow by doing so instead of if they tried to appeal to individuals too. Mojang - definitely not the reason for their downfall. They were going downhill even before that, and the MS store version of minecraft was out before they were bought over. Notch left, there were licensing issues with the server platform (the whole Bukkit affair) and the EULA enforcement that did their toll before MS stepped on to the scene.

@gitlog another step towards GAFAM monopole :(