General / Off-Topic Github snapped-up by Micro$oft

[Para Handy]

"Microsoft buys Github code-sharing site for $7.5bn"

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-44351214

They say "Github would continue to operate independently" - but I wonder for how long and how people feel about Micro$oft getting their hands on the site.

 

[jonluv]

Does anyone care?

 

[Shadowdancer]

Oh dear, "Micro$oft"… the '90s called, they want their hippie-F/LOSS back.

7.5e9 USD is of course vastly overvaluing a company that, like many others *cough*twittersnapchattumblrzyngadiscordbeam*cough*, was on the financial death bed dangling on the usual stupid VCs as life support. It's the normal lifecycle of ① create a company floated by vague promises and venture capital, ② ride the now quickly dying horse as long and as hard as possible without any sense for how money works trying to become an indispensable single point of failure to as many people as possible, and ③ pray you're bought out before your perceived value tanks below what you're owing.

 

[The Lawful]

Microsoft are the good guys now, they 'saved' GitHub for completely altruistic reasons. Don't get fooled by alternative facts like these

https://twitter.com/jamiebuilds/status/1002696910266773505

Embrace, Extend, Obfuscate

O7,
[noob]

 

[phong]

A-hat 'buys' imaginary database.Thargs chuckle.

 

[Patrick_68000]

Microsoft or Megasoft ? Perhaps Boasoft ?