Micro$oft buys GitHub!!! No!!!!! Uggggghhhh!!!

[Yavin4]

Uggggghhhhhh!!!!!!

https://www.theverge.com/2018/6/4/17422788/microsoft-github-acquisition-official-deal

[lapfog_1]

1. there will now be a need for a new open source repo. - n/t

[manor321]

2. Don't get why people are concerned

This insane reaction is as if the calendar says 1998 instead of 2018.

Try learning about the modern Microsoft.

[PoliticAverse]

3. "Try learning about the modern Microsoft." - that's the ones that added ads...

to the previously ad-free Windows games, right?

[Blue_true]

4. NO MATTER WHERE YOU TRY TO HIDE THE EMPIRE WILL FIND YOU.

(Evil laugh that fades into the distance)

[hunter]

5. Github never had a viable business plan... and it's eminently forkable.

That's $7.5 billion of goodwill in the Open Source community Microsoft has bought, or it's pissed away to nothing. I'm not betting either way.

Look forward to an increasing number of alternate git universes in the Google and Amazon "clouds" and remember Spock is logical in all universes but the J.J. Abrams version.

[MyNameGoesHere]

6. I love the Micro$oft

Brings back memories of decades ago. Don't forget, Bill stole DOS! Some butt hurt never heals.