> There's not much about Github that can't be easily replaced.
Integration and workflow. Thanks to the various gubbins available in the marketplace[0], CI/CD goodies, hooks into communication and project management tools and so on, for a lot of people migrating away from Github would mean losing access to enough little convenience things that actually it's not feasible for a large organisation with not great process change management techniques.
It's not like anything about github is open source. Maybe that will change.
well, there was the atom editor. which now i fully expect msft to kill in favor of vs code. damn it.
VsCode is open source too: https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode
i vastly prefer atom - open source or not.
Re:Microsoft acquires Github
by workinthehead on Monday June 04, 2018 @11:39AM
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How would they kill it? It's open source.
Re:Microsoft acquires Github
by kickopotomus on Monday June 04, 2018 @11:55AM
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They can't really "kill" it as in destroy it, but the biggest contributors to that project were all GitHub staff. MS will most definitely redirect any staff efforts to VSCode instead.
> Github doesn't have the vendor lock-in that other companies have
There's not much about Github that can't be easily replaced; it uses git at its core. Comments, issues, and wikis are convenient, but relatively simple to implement.
The main value in Github is the de facto community status it has, which it earned by being an open community and good steward of open source projects. The worst MS could do here is shoot themselves in the foot and ruin that value (which they just purchased for 7.5B) by driving developers to other platforms (who will make it all too easy to switch).
I think the M&A teams at MS must have seen this possiblity and have a different plan in mind for Github. Think dead simple (one-click) Azure deployments and integrations. And if you want (or need) that functionality for a different cloud provider, you'll just have to build it yourself on a different site.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguis...