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Re:Microsoft acquires Github by manigandham on Monday June 04, 2018 @10:37AM (#17228117)
These are giant companies with 1000s of employees and more politics than small countries... it doesn’t work to just generalize it all together.

The developer side of Microsoft has definitely changed for the better over the last several years.

And even if github fails, so what? It’s the most easily replaceable part of the stack.

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Re:Microsoft acquires Github by bad_user on Monday June 04, 2018 @11:43AM (#17228958)
You haven’t been using GitHub for open source then.

The best part of GitHub is the social part and that’s not currently replaceable. Also good luck migrating issues and their history of comments and PRs.

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Re:Microsoft acquires Github by manigandham on Monday June 04, 2018 @03:25PM (#17231258)
Issues and comments can already be migrated, github has a simple API and all the other services have import tools. It's not hard.

The social part is not that big of a deal, its just because everybody happens to already have a login. Other than that, what's the big social hook? You can have the same exact discussions on the other source code sites, all of which have more features too.

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Re:Microsoft acquires Github by jupp0r on Monday June 04, 2018 @11:57AM (#17229158)
There is precedent for these transitions working out fine (Sourceforge, Google Code)
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