[svlug] (forw) [GoLugTech] Microsoft buys GitHub

[Robert Freiberger]

I'll be honest that I'm of a Github fan than other sites simply for the
polished frontend product. I know on the backend, it's just git, but the
graphical tools make it easy to compare pull requests, and just easier to
work with. With that said, and the recent news of Microsoft taking over, I
hope they have learned their lesson of trying to improve things and just
let them (Github) go at their own pace. Not sure if this will happen but as
many others have mentioned, it's not too difficult to move over projects
from one hosting to another. I'm starting to use Bitbucket and Gitlab now,
but it's more about just getting used to another hosting company vs
disliking Microsoft.

But having heard of some of their ideas with buying LinkedIn and other
tools, I'm sure Github will make its way into Windows 10 Developer Edition
as the default source code manager.



On Sun, Jun 3, 2018 at 6:35 PM Rick Moen <rick at linuxmafia.com> wrote:

> Quoting Steve Litt (slitt at troubleshooters.com):
>
> > I'm going to find out more about GitLab.
>
> I don't know a _lot_ about it.  It's a Web-based front-end to git repos
> (thus, like GitHub in that sense).  The Wikipedia page says the codebase
> was originally written in Ruby, with some parts later rewritten in Go.
>
> So, at least it's not yet another PHP nightmare.  ;->
>
> The sponsoring company relies on an 'open core' business model to make
> money, e.g., I assume that various value-add goodies get merged into the
> proprietary 'GitLab Enterprise Edition' but not the MIT Licensed GitLab
> Community Edition.  (My quick reading suggests that all of the
> Go-language rewrites were for the Enterprise Edition.)
>
> There are doubtless also open-source rivals to GitLab CE.
>
>
>
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