Microsoft’s purchase of GitHub leaves some scientists uneasy

Re:Microsoft’s purchase of GitHub leaves some scientists uneasy by tejtm on Saturday June 16, 2018 @02:12PM (#17328584)

If you and I were in a group meeting, you would get an alert stating _you_ would not be able to use the good features on this call because _I_ needed to update my skype client.

Of course, only client available to me is the same exact version they bought years before as they never updated with features just bug fixes. You would have been used an unwitting tool as you helpfully mansplained how to overcome my version deficiency.

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Re:Microsoft’s purchase of GitHub leaves some scientists uneasy by nl on Sunday June 17, 2018 @02:58AM (#17331206)

That seems reasonably understandable from the technical point of view. I'd prefer to know that than the alternative of not knowing why I couldn't use some feature.

If that is the limit of the problems people have with that acquisition then I really fail to understand what the problem is.

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Re:Microsoft’s purchase of GitHub leaves some scientists uneasy by tejtm on Sunday June 17, 2018 @04:17AM (#17331423)

It is not reasonable to trick your users into harassing someone who uses a platform for which there is no newer version because MS abandoned it. A more honest technical note would own up for their choice to discontinue adding features.

I have long since deleted it, too many semi-competent users telling me that all you have to do is go to this site and click on this link ...

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Re:Microsoft’s purchase of GitHub leaves some scientists uneasy by nl on Sunday June 17, 2018 @09:00AM (#17332172)

Well in the general case it’s hardly tricking them, right? For most platforms that is exactly what the user needs to do.

But is that really the worst thing about it? Or have you heard other things?

I’m a desktop Linux users but even I don’t try using Skype on Linux.

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