Huge spike in GitLab imports after Microsoft reportedly acquires GitHub


Kev2442 said:
I've read the article and other ones like criticism and AARD. I do agree that they've had their fair share of justified accusations, but for the past 10 years, they seem to get better and better.
I'm still using Win10 on my main rig (even though this is written on a Debian 8 laptop) for practical purposes, and since its launch it's been the best Windows to me.

The only downside to it is the data collection. But most of it is clearly stated and can be easily disabled on installation.
The rest is kinda moot for most users and can still be removed with simple third-party tools (open-source and easy to find). They're mostly breaking things at this point (like Skype).

Most of what they're hated for are either old grudges or their monopoly (which they can't willingly erase now, can they ?).
They're going out of their way to make amends for their past. I'm not telling you should all welcome them with open arms, but let's at least give them the benefit of the doubt.
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Stockholm Syndrome?
 
AnimatedFreak said:
Why would anyone ever be concerned with Microsoft buying something they use?
*cough* Rare, Nokia, Linkedin, Skype, Mojang *cough*
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100% agree, MS have brown fingers everything they touch turns to s**t

The way they've F'd up Skype makes it barely usable, it's like some kiddies toy.
 
I reserved the appropriate namespaces on gitlab for our company yesterday. We will probably migrate our open-source code to gitlab as soon as we can (and have discussed it). Our main repos are on bitbucket anyway.
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did you take an actual look at the figures? Microsoft contributes a little... which is nice. But the main work is done by other people and corporate entities, it just proves how little canonical contributes ^^

company, no of changes, percentage of contributions:
  1. None 11,413 16.2%
  2. Red Hat 7,563 10.7%
  3. Intel 5,075 7.2%
  4. Novell 3,050 4.3%
  5. Unknown 2,998 4.3%
  6. IBM 2,638 3.7%
  7. Texas Instruments 2,124 3.0%
  8. Consultant 1,859 2.6%
  9. Broadcom 1,780 2.5%
  10. Nokia 1,367 1.9%
  11. Samsung 1,195 1.7%
  12. Oracle 1,102 1.6%
  13. Google 1,054 1.5%
  14. Wolfson Microelectronics 1,005 1.4%
  15. AMD 980 1.4%
  16. Academia 882 1.3%
  17. Fujitsu 854 1.2%
  18. Pengutronix 733 1.0%
  19. Atheros Communications 726 1.0%
  20. Freescale 712 1.0%
  21. Microsoft 688 1.0%
  22. ST Ericsson 663 0.9%
  23. Wind River 645 0.9%
  24. MiTAC 632 0.9%
  25. Soc. Francaise de Radiotelephone 614 0.9%
  26. Analog Devices 611 0.9%
  27. tglx PITA 591 0.8%
  28. Linaro 527 0.7%
  29. QLogic 526 0.7%
  30. Marvell 465 0.7%
the category "none" is volunteers who are not being paid at all, "Unknown" represents sponsored/paid devs.
 
I'll move if and when there's a concrete reason to, i.e. Github changes somehow. Also, I think it's more likely that a new starter will enter the mix now that is basically 'Github, but not owned by MS'. If MS has any shenanigans in mind, I doubt they'll do anything yet, probably not for a year or two.

I'm interested to know why people think moving to sourceforge is a good idea, that site seems like utter cancer to me.
 
I don't see why Microsoft would buy github for $7.5b just to kill it... What would be the benefit? It's not like github is shadowing any MS techonology?

Also, I do have a gitlab account (but no public repo), but I found the gui of gitlab subpar compared to github... I don't see any practical reason to migrate for now (gui of github is clear and responsive, there are many nice stuff in there, travis integration is also working nicely...)
 
After having desperately tried to kill Open Source, now they will say: "look how cool we are, we support Open Source".
Now they have full access to all private repositories.
 
Sounds like Microsoft was depending on GitHub for the open-source side of their work, and GitHub was doing badly financially. So there doesn't have to be any bad motive here.

I totally understand people removing private repos because of spying concerns; but for public repos, is it really necessary to remove them now? Is this some kind of protest?

Sounds like a lot of projects are going to disappear and a lot more break their URLs, and that's a pretty bad thing.
 
xnopasaranx said:
did you take an actual look at the figures? Microsoft contributes a little... which is nice. But the main work is done by other people and corporate entities, it just proves how little canonical contributes ^^
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No, because I was just trolling the anti-MS people; plus I don't really care.
 
Private repo are the only (or at least main) source of income for github, why MS would mess with them??

They may, one day, try to apply some restriction to the public free repo, but even that would have a negative impact (if you don't use github in your personal project, you don't want to push that solution in your companie, and the name loose it's "swag" effect too).
 
pmprog said:
https://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/2166123/microsoft-contributed-code-canonical-linux-2632
Guess it's time to ditch Linux too then?
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The only reason why Microsoft contrubuted to the linux kernel is to have linux support in their Azure cloud. Have a look at their commit... I'm not running a single MS line of code running linux... since I dont run them in azure.


ptitSeb said:
I don't see why Microsoft would buy github for $7.5b just to kill it... What would be the benefit? It's not like github is shadowing any MS techonology?
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Am I the only one seeing the possible connection between linkedIn (which MS already own) and github ?
Developper hiring nowadays is done using github as stream of insights on the dev ability to code.
Having a function in linkedIn (probably for a price) able to find a dev capable of doing what you need by looking at his repo sound enticing...
There's also the fact that MS is using git internally, have posted *huge* patches to git for their usecase and buying github is a good way to promote their GVFS addon to git.
And then there's all the reasons I'm too short-sighted to see myself but that MS execs probably have found. Any of these might be to fight open-source, yet I'm not too sure.
MS have greatly changed since Balmer left. That being said, that doesnt mean I can believe any big company can stand a "dont be evil" posture. Nor do I want my stuff to be in MS hands. hence my switch to something else.
 
ptitSeb said:
I don't see why Microsoft would buy github for $7.5b just to kill it... What would be the benefit?
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The tobacco industry makes money off smokers. Why would they want to risk the smokers/customers health? If smoking would be really that bad to the point it kills, there wouldn't be customers left. Ergo: smoking is healthy... trust me...
 
FBnil said:
The tobacco industry makes money off smokers. Why would they want to risk the smokers/customers health? If smoking would be really that bad to the point it kills, there wouldn't be customers left. Ergo: smoking is healthy... trust me...
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Sorry, that seems irelevent to the github/ms story. Github is tobacco? opensource user are smoker? MS is the Smoke industry? So opensource is bad for health, is that your point?

Again, I don't want to defend MS (and they certainly don't need me for that, or enything else in fact), but all this just seem epidermic reaction.
 
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pmprog said:
Guess it's time to ditch Linux too then?
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Well, ReactOS does look promising to me... :oops:

sebt3 said:
MS have greatly changed since Balmer left. That being said, that doesnt mean I can believe any big company can stand a "dont be evil" posture.
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The current heads weren't involved in these kind of things. As for Skype or Minecraft, I've known them long enough to know that they were already headed this way.
At most Microsoft helped them dig their grave.

Saying that a corporation will always be ill-intentioned is kinda like saying ex-colonialist countries/ex-slave states will always be racist at heart.
Of course we can't expect everything and everyone to change, but as we evolve based on what we're expected to evolve into, expecting someone to be able to change is a step in the right way.
 
@ptitSeb I mean that Microsoft already looked 4 steps ahead. Who knows what they want to do with it. If they merge it with CODE ... you can have this scenario but worse: visual-studio-code-just-deleted-all-my-files
Like selecting something in CODE, which deletes your remote git repository AND local repository... because "clean all" sound a bit like "make clean; make all", which never harmed anyone, right...

Kidding aside; my guess is that they will offer something like Github 365... developers, deve ehrm... monetize, monetize, monetize...
While trying to snatch coders from the pool that are hovering around Google (where the cool guys still are).

I tried to weigh the lets-help-them-out-financially samaritan stuff but in that case, you don't buy out, but donate and do things together, so I am not feeling that vibe here. I do like the push to recover the ground they lost to Google and others.
 
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