[hguhghuff]

I don’t get the Microsoft hate, it feels immature, like teenage rage.

Life’s pretty good if all you have to get really mad about is Microsoft buying github.

[jasonkostempski]

Someone's got to bring the rage. These teenagers today have been made docile by the software and devices created by the likes of MS, so us Gen X curmudgeons need to pick up the slack, just like we do for everything else they should be responsible for.

*I originally typed that jokingly playing the role of a stereotypical Gen Xer. When I took off my stage costume, I realized I was wearing the same outfit underneath. ./midlifecrisis.sh

[kjeetgill]

I think the part of the M$ rage that feels reactionary and knee jerky is simply that it's so trivial to leave github behind for any of the 2-3 comparable competitors. It takes what, 5 minutes?

What's really at stake here for anyone but actual enterprise customers?

PS - > When I took off my stage costume, I realized I was wearing the same outfit underneath.

That's a beautiful sentence. It deservers to be the last sentence in the kind of book they make you read in high school.

[dvfjsdhgfv]

Most of negative comments I read come from senior devs, those who remember the company in the 90s. It was a ruthless fight back then.

[parrellel]

It seems pretty appropriate, really, given Microsoft's long and sordid track record.

If they manage not to wreck the place for, say, 5 years, I'll be tempted to give them the benefit of the doubt.

Tempted.