GitHub could be acquired by Microsoft

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On Tuesday, 5 June 2018 at 16:12:25 UTC, RalphBa wrote:
>> Of course it had to be losing money..how else would they have 
>> convinced everyone it need to be aquired? That's long term Now 
>> which company has done more for software development, besides 
>> Microsoft?
> GNU... oh sorry, you are speaking about companies... Sun... ok, 
> open and free software isn't really compatible with making 
> money. Best argument why to leave GitHub if you do such kind of 
> software.
>
>> Mostly closed source proprietary, sure, but still...(and 
>> that's changed a lot now!)
> Well, changed... you really belive them? And mind, open source 
> doesn't imply open and free software, only vice versa. How 
> young are you to not knowing M$ better?
>
>> I'm sure MS Linux will come out soon .. someone has to compete 
>> with Ubuntu.
> Still M$, still noone essential who will use it... and if only 
> to make a point.
>
>> And sure, MS stopped a lot of other developers/apps from 
>> competing ...but hey, that's business...what else can we 
>> expect (from any for-profit, shareholder company).
> Up there... I wrote something of incompatible, so no not 
> expecting anything else. Thats exactly the point.
>
>> C# - Windows Forms - Database integration - anyone? I still 
>> program with them ;-)
>>
>> If I tried doing any one of my 'windows forms apps' on any 
>> open source solution/platform, the productivity loss alone 
>> would be immense.
> Did you ever have the need to write something efficient? .NET 
> is a sandbox for children and UX people. And yes I know what 
> I'm speaking about... not only up to 4.0 what by the way should 
> lack support and security fixes in the meantime, but as XP user 
> you are common to.
>
>> I hate cloud! Dump the tablet and mobile, and bring back the 
>> pc ( running Windows XP 64 bit, or course - where admin means 
>> admin!).
> Let me try to correct you, you hate centralised clouds. There 
> is another concept of cloud even it isn't that far yet. But I'm 
> pretty sure it will once solve the dilamma that stuff can be 
> infiltrated/bought in one big chunk. Or the one that it has to 
> be financed by one Organisation.
>
> BR Ralph

Nothing wrong with the cloud.  The past few companies Ive worked 
for (small) have used AWS and Azure.  Not managing servers and 
services make it easy for small companies.   For instance we use 
Beanstalk, ECS, Cloudfront, RDS, ElasticCache, Lambda, SQS, and 
SNS at my current job.  With only 5 employees this would be a 
pain to deal with on own and the cost is about 1000/month for us. 
  Sure we could have our own servers in a datacenter but then that 
just brings even more headache and the cost would be more than 
AWS.  I agree that large companies serving vast amounts of the 
internet is not a good thing but the times we live in.