Could a developer please tell me why they are concerned about the GitHub acquisition or are we just making joke tweets to get numbers?
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Replying to @varjmes
The main concern here is that MSFT has a very bad history as far as preserving the things about products they acquire that made them good in the first place. And losing the benefits that GitHub has brought to the current generation of programmers will be a huge loss.
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Replying to @maybekatz @varjmes
So it's not really about the company as a human business per se. They're both pricks, both historically and currently. It's that the open side of GitHub has been so central to so many of us, and MSFT may very well deprioritize and ultimately ruin it.
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Replying to @maybekatz @varjmes
If anything, having a big corp take over will ultimately be great for GitHub's internal culture. But that's mostly because that culture will be systematically dismantled and decimated until nothing is left, as usually happens in acquisitions.
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Replying to @maybekatz @varjmes
I do think that this is basically going to leave a power vacuum when GitHub ends up going the way of Sourceforge. Or Microsoft could surprise us all and inject GH with the money and product expertise to let GitHub achieve things it never had they money or product talent to do
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Replying to @maybekatz @varjmes
I think it'll be the latter. MSFT is on a new tack, dmeven though its history warrants distrust.
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don't ask where those d and m characters came from
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