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by wnsire 2941 days ago
> We are committed to being stewards of the GitHub community, which will retain its developer-first ethos, operate independently and remain an open

> Finally, we will bring Microsoft’s developer tools and services to new audiences.

Which one is it ? Those statements are just contradictory .

It's obvious that they will bring all their stuff into Github as it has become a central piece for MS Engineers and has become strategic for them , either to optimize engineers productivity or just to better sell their products and Azure/Visual Studio Services Package.

Meaning whether or not you like MS tools , you will get some "Open in Visual Studio" button , send in "Microsoft Team" buttons etc... and probably more stuff like this that most people didn't wanted in the first place.

This is really a terrible day for Open Source.
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7dare 2941 days ago
I don't think these are contradictory.

Even if you interpret the second one as "new buttons to advertise Microsoft products", it doesn't damage a developer-first stance or independent operation.

Moreover, GitHub has already partnered with dozens of other companies for its Education program for instance [0]. This already compromises independent operation, and displays ads to thousands of students, "whether or not they like these tools" (your words).

[0] - https://education.github.com/

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wnsire 2940 days ago
You are not getting the point.

MS will integrate Github with MS Ecosystem ( Azure , .NET , VSTS etc.. ) as described in their slides.

From this point there is two possibility

A - They open every single new API they use as well as UI/UX API so other providers can integrate themself to Github

B - They don't open (or partially) those new API and Azure/MS Ecosystem will be the de facto providers for every single stuff that is possible in github. You will end up with a "Open in [Insert Microsoft Products]" buttons and you won't be able to change that , third party providers won't be able to appear here as well. Github would have never done in the first place because they were independant , now every single stuff they do will have to be linked one way or another to MS.

Watch the slides , everything is very well described. https://view.officeapps.live.com/op/view.aspx?src=https://c....

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