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Re:Microsoft acquires Github by sixothree on Monday June 04, 2018 @10:54AM (#17228290)
It's not like anything about github is open source. Maybe that will change.
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Re:Microsoft acquires Github by wooter on Monday June 04, 2018 @11:01AM (#17228364)
well, there was the atom editor. which now i fully expect msft to kill in favor of vs code. damn it.
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Re:Microsoft acquires Github by Totoradio on Monday June 04, 2018 @11:39AM (#17228886)
VsCode is open source too: https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode
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Re:Microsoft acquires Github by wooter on Tuesday June 05, 2018 @09:40AM (#17237464)
i vastly prefer atom - open source or not.
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Re:Microsoft acquires Github by workinthehead on Monday June 04, 2018 @11:39AM (#17228879)
How would they kill it? It's open source.
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Re:Microsoft acquires Github by kickopotomus on Monday June 04, 2018 @11:55AM (#17229135)
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.
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