I guess I shouldn't be surprised that come Monday morning all the reasonable critiques are buried at the bottom of the page and all the GitHub + MS love is upvoted to the top, hyping up all the "amazing business synergies".
Multibillion dollar mergers like this are huge things, especially for with a big player acquiring a smaller beloved brand like GitHub. Makes one wonder how many of those leaks over the past week were planned to get the hate out and pave the way for a "cleaner" coming out like what we're seeing here.
An independent player just got gobbled up by a major one, once again the tech world consolidates...
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EDIT:
Perhaps HN is just having issues, but right after I made this comment and checked the thread ALL I saw were critiques. HN must be quite happening this morning... anyways, in response to /u/mcknz, some critiques:
Centralization vs Decentralization
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17221933
Has MS really changed?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17227370
GH was aa neutral 3rd party
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17221640
Wake up call, MS ties to NSA
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17228593
Open source community Doesn’t have a say
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17229241
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EDIT 2 - I'm probably wrong here, I see the comment now I claimed was deleted, I most likely just misplaced my reply.
~~I actually made this as a reply to the most upvoted MS + GitHub love posts and it looks like that comment was removed and I was placed onto the main thread. The title of this story also changed a couple times too. The current neutral one "Microsoft acquires Github" is the original I think, but for a bit it was changed to something a bit more pro MS.~~
~~I wonder if we'll get a story in a couple days about what was happening in this thread...~~
Multibillion dollar mergers like this are huge things, especially for with a big player acquiring a smaller beloved brand like GitHub. Makes one wonder how many of those leaks over the past week were planned to get the hate out and pave the way for a "cleaner" coming out like what we're seeing here.
An independent player just got gobbled up by a major one, once again the tech world consolidates...
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EDIT:
Perhaps HN is just having issues, but right after I made this comment and checked the thread ALL I saw were critiques. HN must be quite happening this morning... anyways, in response to /u/mcknz, some critiques:
Centralization vs Decentralization https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17221933
Has MS really changed? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17227370
GH was aa neutral 3rd party https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17221640
Wake up call, MS ties to NSA https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17228593
Open source community Doesn’t have a say https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17229241
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EDIT 2 - I'm probably wrong here, I see the comment now I claimed was deleted, I most likely just misplaced my reply.
~~I actually made this as a reply to the most upvoted MS + GitHub love posts and it looks like that comment was removed and I was placed onto the main thread. The title of this story also changed a couple times too. The current neutral one "Microsoft acquires Github" is the original I think, but for a bit it was changed to something a bit more pro MS.~~
~~I wonder if we'll get a story in a couple days about what was happening in this thread...~~