Future of Github?

Spartrekus

Spartrekus

Hello,

I am curious what users may think about the future of Github (drawbacks and advantages, Microsoft future strategies for Github).

Good luck !
Best regards


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That looks like it contains a lethal dose of Disney. Hazmat hoods up and go to orbit.


Sorry, could not resist mate ;)
 
Unless Microsoft rocks the boat in a negative way, Github will continue - until it eventually will be replaced with something else sometime in the future (this is the way of all things).
 
Crivens said:
That looks like it contains a lethal dose of Disney. Hazmat hoods up and go to orbit.
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It shows Microsoft's focus. Home users entertainment and their games. It's why I always say I can never understand why professional software companies would EVER consider writing their programs to run on Windows. It's a mark of insanity.
 
Microsoft being Microsoft, I'd keep my eyes peeled for any EULA or such coming around. I still have a local copy of their attempt to gain all rights and everything of anything being mentioned on hotmail.
 
At this point I'm not worried to be honest. Microsoft has a bad reputation for sure, but that doesn't mean that everything they do is also bad per definition. For example: I've used Codeplex for a while and it was a pretty decent developers community. Provided ways to host open source projects and no nasty EULA's or other weird agreements. This is the main reason why I'm still in full support of GitHub.

Some people live by "Microsoft = evil" and I can most definitely respect that, but I also think that the mantra is often being applied a bit too excessively, definitely too much for my taste.
 
Since the announcement of Microsoft taking over GitHub I see this nagging "Create your own GitHub profile" bar. Typical Microsoft, they are not able to make anything discreet, it must be nagging and gross. And yes, I have my own account, and yes, I logout after did my work on it, and I never won’t login only for looking-up something, and I hate Microsoft for suggesting exactly this in order they can track me, FYI.
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obsigna said:
And yes, I have my own account, and yes, I logout after did my work on it, and I never won’t login only for looking-up something, and I hate Microsoft for suggesting exactly this in order they can track me, FYI.
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That doesn't sound much different than Google. I don't have a Github account but I do have a Google account so I can use their webmaster tools. I log out when I'm done, would never do a search when logged in or use gmail and use startpage.com when possible for a search engine.
 
Trihexagonal said:
That doesn't sound much different than Google. I don't have a Github account but I do have a Google account so I can use their webmaster tools. I log out when I'm done, would never do a search when logged in or use gmail and use startpage.com when possible for a search engine.
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Apart from Duckduckgo, Startpage or Qwant, I sometimes choose a web proxy from proxy.org to use Google. I also use php to ping website sitemap updates to google, instead of from my computer, but other Google tools can't be used this way.
 
Trihexagonal said:
That doesn't sound much different than Google. I don't have a Github account but I do have a Google account so I can use their webmaster tools. I log out when I'm done, would never do a search when logged in or use gmail and use startpage.com when possible for a search engine.
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When I open https://google.com/ for searching something, I do not see a grossly nagging bar asking for creating an account - this is a Microsoft attitude.
 
obsigna said:
When I open https://google.com/ for searching something, I do not see a grossly nagging bar asking for creating an account - this is a Microsoft attitude.
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No, Google has a friendly unimposing blue button with the inviting message "Sign In" in the upper right corner. Almost subliminal in its unobtrusiveness and presentation...

That's what I'd go with if I was them and my motto was "Don't Be Evil". O:‑):D
 
Trihexagonal said:
No, Google has a friendly unimposing blue button with the inviting message "Sign In" in the upper right corner. Almost subliminal in its unobtrusiveness and presentation...

That's what I'd go with if I was them and my motto was "Don't Be Evil". O:‑):D
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If Yahoo would have had an unimposing search entry page, then we would not be in the unfortunate situation of a quasi monopole in the internet search business. This is why I used Google in the initial days. When I searched for how to solve an ordinary differential equation (for example), I was not interested on the greatest and finest fart of any royal baby in the world, nor on any other news from the rainbow press.

One major design rule is, design has to be oriented to the function and not vice versa. This idiotic "Create your Account" bar serves no other function than being annoying. To Yahoo, Microsoft, Facebook, if you can’t hold on being evil, at least don’t be a PITA.

That said, I didn’t come even close to discuss any attitude of Google, you raised the topic. I am not in favour of them, and I am trying hard to avoid any services of them. I use mainly Quant as my daily search engine. For example the following might give you an idea on what can be done in case we don’t want to stay in small talk mode only:
 
I partially moved to Bitbucket. Currently, I have my stuff (nothing notable in fact) on Bitbucket, and I keep GitHub for relationship with third party stuff.
 
Men, Women and Children...

Fear not, I have come to spread the Good Word about our Lord and scm-aviour, self-hosted Mercurial!

😁
 
I don't think this is something related with fear but: "why do I support a Microsoft product when there are (better) alternatives?"
 
obsigna said:
Since the announcement of Microsoft taking over GitHub I see this nagging "Create your own GitHub profile" bar.
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I'm honestly not trying to be argumentative, but I just looked and I didn't see that MicroSoft banner on any Github page I tried, and I tried to see it. I enabled all the scripting it asked for, maybe uBlock Origin blocked it.

Now I did see the overwhelmingly nauseating OctoCat...
 
The tentacle reaching Jolly Roger is ironically missing a warning about piracy under it (and their terms of use disclosures):
"Don't pirate OURTM opensource software, by punishment by cephalopod. We reserve the right to collect personal information to sell to the highest bidder. It is not our business, the purposes it is used for. We are not responsible for our business partners and we respect their privacy."
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Information is not atomic, so no "selling to the highest bidder" but to everyone who has two farthlings to rub against each other.
 
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