[Cialug] GitHub 🖤s Microsoft

[Dave Hala]

It just makes me cringe.

On Mon, Jun 4, 2018 at 11:00 AM, Todd Walton <tdwalton at gmail.com> wrote:

> Sweet mary, mother of God, Microsoft is acquiring GitHub:
> https://blog.github.com/2018-06-04-github-microsoft/
>
> The announcment has some weird things to say, such as, "people have
> smartphones now", (versus 10 years ago). And "as we look to the next decade
> of software development and beyond, we know it’s all about the developer".
> By definition, right? And, "their vision for the future closely matches our
> own". I doubt that.
>
> The current CEO of GitHub, whose username is, aptly, "defunkt" says, "I’ll
> be taking on a new role at Microsoft" with "more details on that in the
> future". I think most of us know how that one ends.
>
> Microsoft has done some serious good in making computing (on both sides of
> the screen) accessible to everyone, and they're doing better as a company
> overall nowadays. But am I the only one still just a little skittish about
> letting them have control of anything? I was literally just thinking this
> morning about some of the truly unethical and illegal things they've done
> in the past, and about how I've shied off a bit from LinkedIn since
> Microsoft acquired it, though I still used it heavily last time I was
> looking for a job. So... mixed reaction there.
>
> The complementary post from Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella is here:
> https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2018/06/04/microsoft-
> github-empowering-developers/
>
> He says, "Microsoft is all-in on open source." That might be an
> exaggeration.... But Nadella seems genuine, and I'm sure he intends for
> that to be true. There's a whole uncut interview with him on Freakonomics
> that's interesting to listen to. I'm glad he's leading Microsoft now.
>
> It's just..... *shiver*
>
> --
> Todd
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