GitHub will soon belong to Microsoft since the acquisition was allowed by the EU

I think it'll be a positive move.

Microsoft can implement certain controls on scripter activities that tend to ultimately produce all sorts of detrimental codes, the last steam chat intrusion comes to mind.

IMHO, scripters that are above board, ie, codes for the betterment of humanity, shouldn't have anything to fear.

i'm fine with this

https://www.steamgifts.com/discussion/GxAI7/microsoft-is-making-a-giant-open-source-play-by-acquiring-github-for-75-billion

It's a positive move. Microsoft has been leaning towards open source for a while right now and recently released over 30k patents making them available completely for free. It's clear that they have a plan for open source softwares and probably even a branch of a new OS while shifting their business plan towards cloud services.

But of course people are gonna vote negative because "hurr durr Microsoft is cansur".

Why would an American company need permission to buy an American company from the European Union?

You can only judge a person or company by its actions. So take a look at for instance all the open source projects Microsoft already develops on GitHub. Or their decision to become part of the OIN which means their entire patent portfolio is now open for use in Linux related systems.

I hated Microsoft for a long time on general principle. They did some really bad things in the past... but that was a long time ago and they had a different business and a different global market to compete on. These days they are the top contributors to the open source community on GitHub, and in a time where GitHub was at risk of having to close down because they couldn't secure their income Microsoft stepped in and outright bought it to save a platform they themselves are a strong proponent and user of.

So I think it will be absolutely neutral. Some changes will happen that the community will not like - just like they did before Microsoft bought it. Some changes will happen that the community will like. Mostly a whole lot of nothing worth noticing will happen. It's time for people to realize that the things they learned about companies and people 20 years ago are not necessarily true today.

GitHub was too centralized. That's what happens next. It's not as if we didn't have GitLab and Bitbucket, but no, everyone just HAS to swarm GitHub.... (funny thing, Vivaldi's spellchecker knows GitHub but not the other 2)

Microsoft is already the largest financial backer and have the most corporate-side open source code over there. I don't think they'll go on any sort of a which hunt, and start burning down the village, seems like they've realized open source code works to their advantage too.

theres no positives from monopolies and centralization.

I dislike Microsoft so I was going to vote "negative", but then I remembered I barely even use Github so what the fuck do I know. Just to say, many votes might be biased by people who, like me, spend 4 hours trying to fix a broken W10 update which made my PC get stuck in a restart loop. :'D

I think github was losing massive amounts of money, so github's future should be brighter as Microsoft has shown a willingness to lose the massive amounts of money that they actually have.

What that future means to the users, who knows? I never used the "Social" aspects of github, just used it as another hosted git repository for work. I never really touched any of the web-based github stuff, I only use git commandline. So from that aspect all I care about is uptime and speed...

Embrace, extend, and extinguish

And like I said in the last SG thread regarding this matter, so far only good thing has came out of it.

most of us already use Microsoft OS^^
so a bit strange to be concerned because they now own the server/site were we publish code source publicly ?!?

It's not a profitable service as far as I know.
what are they going to do ? close the free account ?
even if you are a github subscribers, other similar solutions are available.