Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub

Re:Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub by simon_acca on Sunday June 03, 2018 @05:35PM (#17222337)

Ask yourself and ask your dev friends, who is paying for Github? I personally don't know a single person that is subscribed to it even after spending 5 years in academia and several others in the job pool. And yet every single person that I know && that can code is more than acquainted with github!

Now this could be the result of a lack of business acumen on github's part or stubborness from the users. In any case, it might be too late for github now, but I will myself conduct a review of the free services that I use regularly and reconsider pitching in, since I value independent businesses.

EDIT: looks like my experience may be atypical, that’s good! Just for anecdata, would you include where you live as part of your replies? In my case it’s central europe.

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Re:Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub by saagarjha on Sunday June 03, 2018 @05:50PM (#17222453)

> I personally don't know a single person that is subscribed to it even after spending 5 years in academia and several others in the job pool.

You're looking at the wrong people. It's companies who are paying for GitHub.

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Re:Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub by simon_acca on Sunday June 03, 2018 @05:54PM (#17222475)

And yet the article mentions losses, companies might not be enough

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Re:Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub by geerlingguy on Sunday June 03, 2018 @05:47PM (#17222432)

I’ve paid for private repos on my personal GitHub account for years, and many of the companies I work for/with have paid organization accounts for GitHub, since the integrations and access control / management is really slick vs. setting it up internally. I can see many of these orgs (and myself) determining it’s worth the effort to move to GitLab / self-hosted depending on what Microsoft does.

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Re:Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub by grandmczeb on Sunday June 03, 2018 @05:45PM (#17222422)

I know plenty of orgs paying for Github. I don't know if your experience is typical.

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Re:Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub by majewsky on Sunday June 03, 2018 @05:46PM (#17222427)

My company (SAP) has a GitHub Enterprise installation that, given the number of active users, is going to be a very pleasant revenue stream for GitHub.

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Re:Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub by azernik on Sunday June 03, 2018 @07:25PM (#17223090)

Oh wow. That's a monster of an account to land.

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Re:Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub by ediardo on Sunday June 03, 2018 @05:59PM (#17222517)

I know several small, medium, large companies paying github to keep their repos private. Also, github offers on-premises installation of their product.

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Re:Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub by zxcvhjkl on Sunday June 03, 2018 @09:39PM (#17223821)

Another sample of one: I pay for a personal account, although I don’t really have any projects that couldn’t be public, and my company pays for company account.

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Re:Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub by azernik on Sunday June 03, 2018 @07:25PM (#17223087)

I pay for it for my business's private codebase; live in the SF Bay.

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