I’m pretty sure most of you already acknowledged this news…
I’m not against Microsoft as a company, but I’m a bit more reluctant putting my code where a big corporation has its hands on.
Maybe this is a troll, like many others out there, but this tweet, that spread in the last days, gives me some doubts on the real “feelings” MS has on OSS movement: https://twitter.com/jamiebuilds/status/1002696910266773505
What do you think about this acquisition? Are you planning to migrate, or at least mirror, some of your repos somewhere else?
As far as my OSS code is concerned, I plan to gradually mirror my projects somewhere else, first on BitBucket then (maybe) on a private Git server.
At the moment I’m evaluating to migrate to Bitbucket without discarding GitLab. I think Microsoft isn’t interested in open software, it only interests the ideas of many developers to be integrated into their products in the future.
I doesn’t really think that it is a bad thing to happen.
Sure, MC have lots of bad desigions related to buyed producs (skype,nokia etc) . But there still a chance that we will just have soft integration in MC ecosystem (i am thinking most about Bing and cloud).
Again, i try to think optimistic about that purchase.
I’m sure MS has acquired GitHub not for killing it. Whether it will be a better or worse service under MS - time will tell. Anyway, I’m sure we will have enough time to prepare and move in case we are not satisfied.