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Jun 4, 2018
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Github
Microsoft buys Github! Is there any other service to use in order to avoid Microsoft?
Level 6
Looks like Forge use only Github....
Level 35
No they also support bitbucket.
Level 8
were did you read that ?
Level 6
In the news try Google translate from Swedish: MICROSOFT: BEKRÄFTAR KÖPER GITHUB FÖR 7,5 MDR USD
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STOCKHOLM (Direkt) Microsoft bekräftar att det köper Github, en mjukvaruplattform, för 7,5 miljarder dollar i Microsoft-aktier.
Det framgår av ett pressmeddelande.
Github kommer att drivas som en oberoende enhet för att ge en öppen plattform för alla utvecklar inom alla industrier, skriver Microsoft.
Github kommer att redovisas som del av Microsofts segment Intelligent Cloud och förvärvet väntas bidra till Microsofts rörelseresultat under räkenskapsåret 2020.
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Level 8
WTF?!!!! what do you recommend as an alternative
Level 67
I'd rather MS owned it than Google or Amazon. Really though, who cares that MS owns it? You can always host your own repo on your own private server using pure git. That's what everybody used to do before github/bitbucket/gitlab/etc. We still mirror our repos on our own servers just in case github goes down, which has happened several times for hours at a time. But since most repos are on github, you'll be using it whether you host your own code there or not, so you're not really "escaping" anything.
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Level 8
how possible is it that microsoft turns github into a paid tool?
Level 67
Anythings possible! Github could also have just have closed their free tier anytime they wanted. Nothing's for sure, especially when it's free. We already pay anyway as we have many private repos.
Level 35
I agree with @Cronix. No real need to switch because microsoft owns it now.
@jcmargentina Github is already a paid service for private repo's. And I do not think they will make the public repo's paid because that will kill github.
Quote from the blog of microsoft:
Going forward, GitHub will remain an open platform, which any developer can plug into and extend. Developers will continue to be able to use the programming languages, tools and operating systems of their choice for their projects – and will still be able to deploy their code on any cloud and any device.
BTW, gitlab (alternative to github) is seeing an increase in project imports from github. So there are some people moving away from github. https://twitter.com/gitlab/status/1003409836170547200
You can follow this thread on hacker news: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17227286
Level 75
Do you realize how many things Microsoft has for free. MS has ASP.NET, The free version of sql server (big enough for most hobby, small sites, etc), visual studio free versions, etc.
And there's free storage on onedrive.
I have used MS since before Windows, old MS DOS, bootable large floppy.
So far I trust Microsoft, they have done me pretty darn good.
Maybe instead of avoiding MS, say thank you MS.
Also read this Github blog on it https://blog.github.com/2018-06-04-github-microsoft/
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