Re:Microsoft Buys GitHub: The Linux Foundation's Reaction
by Kipters on Friday June 08, 2018 @09:23AM
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Nat Friedman (future CEO of GitHub) has stated on his Reddit AMA that there will be not any advertisement on GitHub
Re:Microsoft Buys GitHub: The Linux Foundation's Reaction
by fred_is_fred on Friday June 08, 2018 @09:25AM
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Github's aim was also making money.
Re:Microsoft Buys GitHub: The Linux Foundation's Reaction
by jjuel on Friday June 08, 2018 @09:40AM
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Yeah Github wasn't a non-profit. It was a company that wanted to make money. They weren't giving everything they offered away for free. In fact the main reason I used Gitlab was for free private repositories. But no use arguing I guess since people will never change their mind no matter what Microsoft does.
Re:Microsoft Buys GitHub: The Linux Foundation's Reaction
by fred_is_fred on Saturday June 09, 2018 @10:51PM
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Free private teams were the reason I first used gitlab also, but I found that I liked their CI system too.
Though I'm in the middle on this, I'll see what microsoft does with github. The company has shown a different approach to the 'old microsoft' but it's still a company with the aim of making a profit. Github was losing money IIRC and MSFT has a lot of data on people as it is. Github might be a good way to target devs for advertisements :)