Hopefully, things are different under Satya, who wisely has kept GitHub at arms length.
But it is hard to think of other US large cap companies with such a record of being a Destroyer of Acquisitions.
Hopefully. Minecraft is another example of something they didn’t abjectly fuck up. It’s possible for them to do the right thing.
From what I see over my spawn’s shoulders, Discord is substantially better than Slack. Hope they don’t kill Discord with enterpriseyness and keep it more on the gamer side.
GitHub had some value as an independent concern though.
Discord doesn't. Either it has to start monetising so it doesn't lose money (which it could do regardless of Microsoft so the acquisition doesn't add much value) or Microsoft justifies the acquisition by integrating it with it's other services (probably gaming) and taking advantage of the user base.
From what I see over my spawn’s shoulders, Discord is substantially better than Slack. Hope they don’t kill Discord with enterpriseyness and keep it more on the gamer side.