I don't believe Microsoft is necessarily "evil." But the amount of consolidation that is going on in the tech is really scary. Five American (yes it matters that they are all US-based, given the jingoistic direction the world is taking) companies; Microsoft, Google, Facebook, Apple and Amazon, wields an insane amount of power over the rest of the world.
I think we techies need to come up with democratic, free alternatives for these services. Something like GitHub but federated so that not a single party has to pay for all the bandwidth and server costs.
We really need to give github some credit. They have had our backs for the longest time and I don't think they will just give up on its community now.
Microsoft is getting better all the time, they are an important OS contributor, and they seem to be doing pretty ok by devs.
Let's just give both of them some time to tell and show us what their plans are. There is no reason to burn this relationship from day -1.
ps. Github was and is pretty much pretty walled up, I'll keep hoping that at some point they'll allow to add external remotes to github repos, or at least collaborate with gitlab to allow PR/MRs between the two.
I'll be mirroring my stuff to gitlab (an instance that I control). The reason for that is fairly simple: I have never seen an acquisition by Microsoft be a positive development for the software.
On a more ideological level, I think the company is fundamentally reprehensible in it's business practices and has been for the entire time that I've known they exist. I do not think they will ever change and I do not think they came from a good place that they could return to. It wouldn't be right to support them any more than I have to (for example, things I need to do my job).
I’ll be very surprised if enterprise customers would move away form GitHub because of this move if anything it might be a plus now.
I suspect some of the more Stallmanist FOSS projects might move away (although I’m not sure why aren’t they on GitLab already) and there will be #MeToo migration of personal repos of people who need something new to post to their Tweeter feed which will last about a news cycle or so.
Yes, we are moving out our enterprise account from github to bitbucket. Actually it is already done. Right now we are in the migration phase where we are updating all the links in legacy install base to bitbucket.
I wanted to do that for a long time already, because getting trapped in closed "ecosystem" is never good, but being able to jump the bandwagon made it so much easier :P
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I think we techies need to come up with democratic, free alternatives for these services. Something like GitHub but federated so that not a single party has to pay for all the bandwidth and server costs.
Microsoft is getting better all the time, they are an important OS contributor, and they seem to be doing pretty ok by devs.
Let's just give both of them some time to tell and show us what their plans are. There is no reason to burn this relationship from day -1.
ps. Github was and is pretty much pretty walled up, I'll keep hoping that at some point they'll allow to add external remotes to github repos, or at least collaborate with gitlab to allow PR/MRs between the two.
I'll certainly wait how this works out and not make any rash decisions.
Apart from that (and admittedly apart from Skype), Microsoft in recent years has gained quite some credibility from my point of view.
On a more ideological level, I think the company is fundamentally reprehensible in it's business practices and has been for the entire time that I've known they exist. I do not think they will ever change and I do not think they came from a good place that they could return to. It wouldn't be right to support them any more than I have to (for example, things I need to do my job).
We have an enterprise instance and depend on a lot of integrations.
I suspect some of the more Stallmanist FOSS projects might move away (although I’m not sure why aren’t they on GitLab already) and there will be #MeToo migration of personal repos of people who need something new to post to their Tweeter feed which will last about a news cycle or so.