GitHub could be acquired by Microsoft

[Joakim]

On Monday, 4 June 2018 at 19:06:52 UTC, Maksim Fomin wrote:
> On Monday, 4 June 2018 at 08:42:08 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
>> On 6/3/2018 8:51 PM, Anton Fediushin wrote:
>>> This is still just a rumour, we'll know the truth on Monday 
>>> (which is today).
>>
>> We'll stay on Github as long as it continues to serve our 
>> interests, which it has done very well, and I have no reason 
>> to believe will change.
>>
>> We have a number of ties to Microsoft:
>>
>> 1. It's just down the street.
>> 2. Many D users work at Microsoft.
>> 3. Microsoft has always been helpful and supportive of Digital 
>> Mars, note the files licensed from Microsoft in the 
>> distribution.
>> 4. Microsoft has invited myself and Andrei to speak at 
>> Microsoft from time to time.
>> 5. Microsoft hosts the nwcpp.org meetings, which provide a 
>> venue for me to try out D presentations to a friendly crowd.
>> 6. Microsoft has been generous with helping me solve some 
>> vexing compatibility problems from time to time.
>
> OK, so Digital Mars is in good relationship with Microsoft (I 
> am surprised because have never heard about it). However, 
> judging by Microsoft acqusition experience my prediction is 
> that github will slowly but surely degradate (as suggested on 
> some forums, everything will be firstly switched to Microsoft 
> account - to track data, then everything will be mangled by 
> ads, then some features deemed unnecessary by Microsoft will be 
> removed, then linux will be badly supoorted, then some features 
> incompatible with Microsoft services will stop working, then 
> servers will start work poorly like skype...).
>
> P.S.
>
> My second reaction after reading news (after shock) was to 
> visit D forum.

Unlikely, you don't spend $7.5 billion on a company because you 
want to send a message that you're a good dev tools company, then 
neglect it.

I suggest you look at their online slides linked from the Nadella 
blog post to see their stated plan, such as integrating github 
into VS Code more:

http://aka.ms/ms06042018

Of course, this is Microsoft: they probably won't execute that 
plan well, and likely vastly overpaid for an unprofitable company 
in the first place, but they emphasize that they intend to keep 
github open and independent.