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[Update 20180604 @ 14:00 UTC: Acquisition confirmed. Microsoft is paying $7.5 billion in stock. Coverage at Microsoft, Security Week, The Register, and The Verge. Also, see the Microsoft blog post. --martyb]
Microsoft has reportedly acquired GitHub
Microsoft has reportedly acquired GitHub, and could announce the deal as early as Monday. Bloomberg reports that the software giant has agreed to acquire GitHub, and that the company chose Microsoft partly because of CEO Satya Nadella. Business Insider first reported that Microsoft had been in talks with GitHub recently.
Time to move off GitHub?
Previously: Microsoft Holds Acquisition Talks with Github
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Microsoft Agrees to Acquire GitHub... for $7.5 Billion [Updated]
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(Score: 5, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 04 2018, @01:50PM (20 children)
Anyone who experienced what happened to skype must be very worried.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 04 2018, @02:02PM
I'm worried about Atom. Thx $DEITY it is open source, and a fork can happen.
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Monday June 04 2018, @02:10PM (2 children)
Also pay attention to what Microsoft did to Hotmail when they acquired that.
Move it from Unix to . . . . Windows NT 4!
And it took four times as many systems to run. Wasn't stable. Etc.
At least this time they can migrate GitHub to Windows 10 S. (I think that's what it's called . . . I wouldn't know.)
GitHub's scaling problems will be over! And it will have stability! The kind of reliability you've come to expect from Microsoft products. [techcrunch.com]
To transfer files: right-click on file, pick Copy. Unplug mouse, plug mouse into other computer. Right-click, paste.
(Score: 4, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 04 2018, @02:27PM
But a windoze machine power button pusher costs 20% of what a unix admin does, so it is all good.
(Score: 3, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 04 2018, @03:09PM
"GitHub's scaling problems will be over! And it will have stability!"
And all they'll have to do is figure out what to do with all the tumbleweeds rolling around.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by JoeMerchant on Monday June 04 2018, @02:14PM (8 children)
Skype (still) doesn't have good technical alternatives that are as easy to use and migrate over to from Skype.
I think if the GitHub community mostly migrates to GitLab, this is going to be pretty painless overall. Juggling remotes on git repos is pretty minor hassle compared to writing code and tracking bugs. The problem with migrating from Skype is that it's compared to POTS for ease of use, and that's a pretty low bar to match.
🌻🌻 [google.com]
(Score: 4, Informative) by requerdanos on Monday June 04 2018, @04:25PM (7 children)
I have had good experience* with wire [wire.com]. It connects reliably, has great call quality, and works across multiple platforms.
I tried Jitsi, Stallman's platform of choice, but found that it only connected calls rarely (50-70% connection rate some days, 5-10% other days, and some days, sorry, ICE failure all day long).
I tried Tox but found utox and qtox pretty feature poor, with poor call quality (distorted and "buzzy"). It works great; most of the problems will probably disappear with time. Lot of bugs with status "Yeah, will fix in a rewrite of the (whatever part) code."
Note that when wire's website says things like "free trial" etc. they are talking about a business-targeted service, not the wire messenger, which is free/libre software and free/gratis to use.
* One-on-one text chat, video chat, screen sharing (which is the best I have seen in a messenger)
(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Monday June 04 2018, @05:23PM
Cool, I'll check wire.
I've used Tox, and it's not a bad start, but it definitely had stability/compatibility issues that would keep me from considering it as a solution to recommend to friends - last time I tried it was maybe a year ago now.
🌻🌻 [google.com]
(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Monday June 04 2018, @05:30PM (3 children)
A cynical person would say that Microsoft/Skype is looking to derail Wire's pending self-hosted server option before it goes live...
It's not possible to use it without paying, yet - right? (other than the 30 day trial) With the self-hosted server and GPL license, that should change.
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(Score: 2) by requerdanos on Monday June 04 2018, @08:05PM (2 children)
They are selling some "wire business service" very aggressively on their website, but "wire desktop" (the messenger) is both free/libre and free/gratis.
Their https://wire.com/en/download/ [wire.com] page has the downloads for a Linux binary (as well as links to repositories for Debian and Ubuntu), and binaries for Android, Mac OSX, Windows, and iOS.
Also usable in a browser at http://app.wire.com [wire.com]. At this link, if not signed in, you will see "For personal use" -- which is the free/libre/gratis thing that is like Skype -- or "For Organizations-Create A Team" which is the thing they are selling. Click "For personal use" to make a free account. I have found it to be a drop-in replacement for Skype on my Debian desktop and on my Android phone.
Their source code is here: https://github.com/wireapp/wire [github.com].
(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Monday June 04 2018, @09:22PM (1 child)
So, I suppose that 2.5 years is too long to expect an OS to remain useful?
Node.js 8.x won't install on wily, and while 6.x installed, the wire client has some problem with React that it is pointing at Node.js being too old as a likely source...
Have I ever mentioned what a royal PITA I have found Java and javascript to be over the past 20 years?
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 05 2018, @09:42PM
"Wily" has been officially EOL since July 28, 2016. You haven't received a single update, security or otherwise, since then. I would not be expecting much from your OS.
(Score: 1) by Burz on Tuesday June 05 2018, @03:05AM (1 child)
I looked at Wire but Riot looks even more interesting. So far it works well, has e2e encryption and its server architecture is federated:
https://riot.im/ [riot.im]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 05 2018, @06:50PM
i didn't know they had put the e2e in beta. it wasn't included last time i looked which looked very fishy to me. maybe they were just lagging behind.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by FatPhil on Monday June 04 2018, @03:03PM (6 children)
I'm currently involved in a business with one of the very early Skype guys, and to be perfectly honest, thanks MS - without that windfall of cash in his pocket this new business may never have been founded!
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 04 2018, @06:34PM
It's just too bad Nokia's phone division had to die without convincing a competitor to produce a compelling keyboard+discrete baseband alternative first :(
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Monday June 04 2018, @06:39PM (4 children)
Misdirected thanks. The first to buy Skype was eBay, in September 2005, for $2.6 billion in cash and stock [wikipedia.org].
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 2) by FatPhil on Monday June 04 2018, @09:21PM (3 children)
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(Score: 2) by Gaaark on Monday June 04 2018, @11:02PM (2 children)
Care to share the business model/plans...?
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(Score: 2) by FatPhil on Tuesday June 05 2018, @06:32AM (1 child)
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(Score: 2) by Gaaark on Tuesday June 05 2018, @10:55AM
Yuuup!
Nice! :)
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