RE: Microsoft buys GitHub Rule R217

[Marc Beck <pa...@earthlink.net>]

M$ did break/mess up everything they touched. Can't see why eventually it
will be different here

Marc 

-----Original Message-----
From: Kirk Pepperdine [mailto:kirk@kodewerk.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2018 4:36 AM
To: dev@netbeans.incubator.apache.org
Subject: Re: Microsoft buys GitHub Rule R217

Hi Jim,

>> 
>> John
> 
> 
> I'm sorry, but as a professor who has had to spend the bulk of his
teaching
> career telling students to not use MS products because they don't follow
> standards, I'm on the other side, condemn the news until they prove they
> aren't the useless organization they have always been.

You really need to shift your attitude. MS hasn't been a useless
organization.. they've been very useful at sucking up all of the capital
that may have been useful to spur innovation in this industry.. oh even
better, they've been able to use that capital to further stifle innovation..
all very useful.

More seriously, it is unlikely that MS will change git in the short term and
in fact it might be something that resembles the Skype acquisition.
Essentially everything is the same. That said, I think that Tim's point that
a GitHub monoculture does leave us vulnerable to the whims of the the
dictator in charge of that monoculture.. which was ok when we liked the
dictator but now..

Kind regards,
Kirk


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