On Monday, 4 June 2018 at 04:26:25 UTC, Dmitry Olshansky wrote:
On Monday, 4 June 2018 at 03:51:15 UTC, Anton Fediushin wrote:
This is still just a rumour, we'll know the truth on Monday
(which is today).
Some articles about the topic:
https://fossbytes.com/microsoft-github-aquisition-report/
https://www.theverge.com/2018/6/3/17422752/microsoft-github-acquisition-rumors
What's your opinion about that? Will you continue using GitHub?
Well, MS already contributes big time to many open-source
projects, including Git.
I do not see immanent problem with them buying it.
I can think of hundreds of things what can go wrong including:
forcing users to use Microsoft accounts, advertising own
products, changing search to Bing (that's pretty bad one, no idea
how I came up with it) and more and more.
I can agree though that last 5 years or so Microsoft is doing
well with open-source projects. Question is: will it carry on
with open-source?
Both GitLab and Bitbucket can be used instead to host your D
projects - dub registry supported them for a while now.
Both are fine, though Gitlab seems more sexy now.
Indeed it is. GitHub is stuck in 2010-s and the UI of GitLab is
beautiful and smooth.
IMHO Microsoft isn't the type of company I want to see behind
the GitHub. Maybe I am wrong since Microsoft has both money
and programmers to improve it further, I just don't trust them
too much which is the right thing to do when dealing with
companies.
Would you trust Google? Me, I’m not.
In fact if we were to place trust, comercial IT companies would
be pretty down on my list of “trust” in any case.
If you'd ask me a year or two ago - maybe, but now I have no idea
what Google is doing and last bits of trust I had are gone.
