GitHub could be acquired by Microsoft

[aberba]

On Tuesday, 5 June 2018 at 17:12:00 UTC, Apocalypto wrote:
> On Tuesday, 5 June 2018 at 16:12:25 UTC, RalphBa wrote:
>
>> Did you ever have the need to write something efficient? .NET 
>> is a sandbox for children and UX people.
>
> Oh yeah, toy applications for children like StackOverflow, 
> Siemens NX, Solidworks, most of the Azure platform, MSSQL and 
> Visual Studio just to name a few. Even a toy compiler like 
> Roslyn. Don't be surprised if github will run someday on top of 
> the .net platform. Welcome to the children playground!

This take on Microsoft is really ridiculous. I hope it's all just 
for fun. I've been using Linux 100% for years and it's really 
ridiculous seeing comments about Microsoft being some evil 
company. Beating competition with alternative product is 
everywhere...Google took over from Yahoo, Github from Rosetta and 
Co,  Facebook from others,...its all competition in business.

These people who complain don't usually contribute a penny to 
Open source. Frankly, Microsoft has done great things for the 
world with software. Making computers accessible to everyone... 
They recently came out with VS Code which is better than any 
existing open source alternative...even though it uses same 
technology as atom and bracket text editor. Really, Microsoft 
write high quality software... proprietary or open source. They 
contribute to Linux and other tools. There's the major 
contributor to open source.


Github is a for-profit company so of course i would expect to 
make profit too if I bought it. Your employer doesn't pay you 
with leaves. That money comes from commercialization. Developers 
must eat.

I think some only look at what happened during Steve Balmer's 
time as ceo. It was "HIS" strategy to pick on Linux. In fact, he 
pick on Apple too and several other competing products. Its all 
marketing and competition and its pretty much everywhere. 
Monopoly and patent registration is everywhere. I'm not saying 
its a good thing or bad,...Its not just Microsoft.


If you're don't trust Microsoft, you shouldn't trust any 
commercial company. Microsoft has changed business model too by 
embracing open source. In fact, their the real believers in open 
source now compared to those who don't think theirs money in open 
source.