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If anything I'd prefer Microsoft to acquire Github than say...Google.
Microsoft is not a perfect company but it's not the 2000s anymore and I'm a bit annoyed by the usual "Microsoft: Bad™" takes. Especially when other comp like Google/FB are actually doing harmful things in present days 🤷
I'll take "Has a shitty policy over Windows' copyright but largely contributes to open-source" over "has a hip image but builds military AI" thank you.
BUT: of course the whole thing is a bit worrying re: centralization and depending on how Microsoft handles the acquisition, it might kill GitHub because Microsoft isn't notoriously good at keeping acquisitions in a good state.
But the centralization part would be worrying no matter the buyer, mind you.
I personally don't think MS is gonna ruin GitHub, or that suddenly they're going to go all Windows-copyrighty on the software hosted on it. That'd be an incredibly stupid move given theirs actions in open source in the recent years.
@gdkar as much as I agree with you I think there’s a distinction to make between “having your stuff used by Bad Actors” and “actively trying to please Bad Actors and make it sound like it’s a cool thing to do”(Google’s project Maven and how enthusiastic their execs were about it is scary as fuck)
@Eramdam hmmm. idk. i guess as far as i can tell that's still kind of....
idk. not saying we should cut google slack for this ( and we ~did~ think they were serious about not being evil, and they did definitely jump on the evil bandwagon pretty fast. )
just that, like,.... that's honestly kind of business as normal? really?
@gdkar of for sure. I didn't mention it but comps like Palantir have been doing that kind of shit for years already. "Business as usual" doesn't automatically equates to "good" as you say :/
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@gdkar of for sure. I didn't mention it but comps like Palantir have been doing that kind of shit for years already. "Business as usual" doesn't automatically equates to "good" as you say :/