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Re:Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub by fernandotakai on Sunday June 03, 2018 @05:15PM (#17222137)
100% disagree there. microsoft has a bunch of amazing software -- vscode, visual studio, azure cloud is actually quite good, sqlserver actually runs on linux (and it's a good db!).

microsoft under satya is a great company and doesn't even compare to the ballmer days.

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Re:Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub by aphextron on Sunday June 03, 2018 @05:25PM (#17222241)
>microsoft under satya is a great company and doesn't even compare to the ballmer days.

I think everyone here would agree with that assessment. But ultimately Microsoft is not a neutral party, and this news will cause a massive fracture in the open source community. This is the death of what GitHub was.

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Re:Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub by CamperBob2 on Sunday June 03, 2018 @05:41PM (#17222394)
>I think everyone here would agree with that assessment.

Ah, for the days when HN was a refuge from this type of bullshit.

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