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This feels like Slashdot from 10 years ago. I thought the anti-Microsoft sentiment had dissipated, but clearly that’s not the case.

I was a Microsoft focused developer through the bad years and even I thought they acted horribly against Netscape. They ended up paying a billion dollars for it and we’re forced to change.

I wasn’t a fan of Ballmer either and thought MS had lost its way. Windows Phone started off nice but they just couldn’t get enough developer interested.

Maybe that was the wake up call. If you don’t have the devs and you’re a dev-centric company, you’re doomed.

In comes Satya Nadella, along with Scott Guthrie and other internal proponents of open development and the company has very demonstrably changed its stripes in the last five years.

I judge companies on current behavior and Microsoft seems to be doing far more right than wrong.
That's really odd. There are shared tests for all this stuff, and browsers should really be doing it identically.

Did you happen to report bugs on this to browsers? If not, do you happen to have a link to a page that shows the behavior difference?
I suspect that he won't be charged non-the less convicted until after the mid term elections. That said, it doesn't matter if he pardons himself, because congress will likely impeach him if he is convicted or even just indicted.
I'm waiting for a reaction from Linus and Stallman
If they changed so much, let them reverse their claim that APIs are copyrightable, stop patent shakedowns (like on Android and etc.) and start supporting major FOSS cross platform initiatives like Vulkan. Until then I'll retain my skepticism about how much they have really changed.
But "extend" hasn't happened yet. There's no need to cry foul until it does, because until it does there's no evidence of anything nefarious going on. "Embrace" on its own is perfectly normal and acceptable behavior.

Vendor lock-in is an important concern regardless of who owns the platform you're being locked into.
If I learned anything working at large companies is that hardware is never close to being as expensive as headcount.
> with some investment in development could have killed it pretty easily: thanks to native code a device could offer the same performance using slower CPUs and less RAM, or be a lot snappier with the same hardware. Given due time, manufacturers and users would have noticed.

Windows Phone was native and extremely performant on even low end hardware. Microsoft dumped millions into development and couldn’t get traction. No way Maemo was going to displace Android.

Manufacturers literally do not care about anything except selling devices and are uninterested in performance except as it relates to bigger numbers that they can advertise with. Users consistently chose Android over Windows Phone demonstrating that their priorities did not align with picking the phone that would still be snappy in two years.

Nokia’s phone business was doomed. Even if they’d pivoted to Android devices they’d probably have still failed because that’s such a tough market with so much competition willing to sell phones with no margin.

Disclosure: Microsoft employee
It's not like anything about github is open source. Maybe that will change.
There are lots of Open Source projects that will do what you are asking. Here is the first top hit on using bind to do that - https://github.com/wrouesnel/dns-over-https-proxy

However I disagree that it is a bad idea and that the implementation is bad. Regardless of how software _should_ behave, Firefox operates in how software is actually run for their users. DNS is a source of security vulnerabilities and headaches.

Demanding a higher level abstraction is not always an option for many, but using Firefox often is. This is especially important for mobile, where a lot of people don't have access or knowledge to set in place a system wide proxy after rooting their phones, but it is very easy to install Firefox mobile.

What about web browser usage on library or campus computers? Often they will have several browsers installed as well.

The point is that making security more available and easier to use where it matters most is a good idea.
That's a nice take - it's still understandable that many of us would rather be in control of the software we're using, though, isn't it? It's - irksome.

If one of my prod servers were forcefully updated - with no warning, therefore no chance to make backups - I'd be furious. If my main dev machine was bricked as a result of forceful updates, as I seem to recall it happened to some folk...

It feels like they disregard users in that sense, and it's sad.
There are two ways you create value for your employer:

1) creating value for their customers

2) maintaining the moat that prevents other people from creating value for their customers

The former is constructive, the latter is destructive. They both contribute revenue.

I haven’t done a full scale analysis of Microsoft, but the argument I would entertain is that Microsoft primarily sells tools for companies and individuals to built moats around themselves.
The elephant in the room is that GitHub is closed source yet is the one who sold for $7.5B.
I don't really have a horse in this race., but if you're going to make this point, you really should be responding to parent's 6th point, not parent's 5th point. Parent already answered this criticism.
Haven't they spied on Windows 10 users? Do they not engage in patents racketeering? Haven't they killed Nokia and ruined Skype?

This is small compared potatoes to the sort of thing Microsoft used to pull before. Microsoft spent years in the courts and narrowly avoided some very drastic government intervention and regulation on both sides of the Atlantic. That doesn't happen because someone might not like the new Skype UI or really misses flip phones.
Funny story about him. He wanted to get a Job at Microsoft and wasn’t hired because he didn’t have the qualifications. Then he built Xamarin and made it a great C# open source tool to build apps. M$ really loved it and bought the company. Now he’s leading GitHub. That’s awesome.

Microsoft does have a dark history, it’s also a huge company and Terry Meyerson (windows lead) was an aweful leader.

Things definitely changed. Satya knows that they need the developer mindshare, and that means to go where the developers are.

I hate windows as much as anyone, but a lot of their products are top notch. God I love vscode and Typescript. Just only use their OS products and you’ll be happy.
I don't understand why the people have this huge team mentality. If this team does that, it wrong, if another does it it is ok. Google cancelled Google Code with no backlash, or at least not to this level. Microsoft is trying to save a vital company in the open source community that didn't even have a CEO or any path to profitability and people react like they are going to ban all projects that are not C#. Not only in tech, but elsewhere I see a trend of just following a herd mentality instead of judging every action by it's own weight or at least let it play out. Of course, if you are afraid have a plan B or backup what ever you see fit but we need more critical thinking in our daily lives.
Octocat is sad. Look at the picture!
Once upon the time there was a thing called server side rendering.
I don't think a single person is considering moving from GitHub to Sourceforge.
In what way is ecology getting better, rather than rapidly worse?
Our intuition regarding communities stems from a history where we only ever communicated with those near us. Right now, we are able to go anywhere in the world within a day. We are able to communicate worldwide within seconds. Clearly our intuition has not caught up, but maybe given these changes in our community (which is now far less defined just by some kind of radius around our location), we should update our actions to reflect this?

It makes sense not to feel morally responsible for things that happen out of view when you cannot know what is going on and have no way to impact it. Thing is, we do know a lot about what is going on and we do have tools to impact it. It just doesn't feel intuitively satisfying. It is possible to internalize this satisfaction regardless, though.
> on all the major Git platforms

missing notabug.org and savannah
An open letter to the man who ran me over
The 8-bit guy did a video on the GameBoy camera a while back. It's pretty interesting.

What's amazing about this post is just the quality of the images. They're really good for the medium.

They look like some of the drawing demos the old Commodore artists (and current demo scene people) do; amazing images with really simple color sets and low resolutions.
ive been using gitlab for 3 years now in an enterprise environment, and the only complaint I have is lack of federation (albeit im told after the MS move, this is getting a lot more attention.)

I have 1400+ projects and more than 700 users in 3 geographic locations using my server. backups with ruby fog libraries included in gitlab are taken once a night and im expanding the CI presence to include a kubernetes cluster. In short, Gitlab is worth it if you have the resources to deploy.

If not, gitea is a great alternative as well.
https://gitea.io
I am thankful. But everyone gets a job out of undergrad with a CS degree. I think I'm one of the ~10 people in my 300 person CS program that got a job at a big tech company making more than $100k a year. That's not good enough. I'm not competing with them, I'm competing with people that went to HYPSM.
Arguments about migration itself aside, using SourceForge as a destination would last have occurred to me about 15 years ago. Very puzzling title.
20 years ago, my father attributed the general "change in children" to the widespread availability & use of household air-conditioning.

Granted this won't be true throughout all climates, but I recall thinking it had a lot of merit at the time and I continue to think so today. My father would tell me that, when he was a kid, they'd either sit at home in a 90F+ house on Long Island with the windows open -- miserable, as I can attest from living it when we'd visit as a kid -- or they'd go outside and play "stick ball" in the same weather with their friends. For them, it was an easy choice.

Today, children either play on their devices at home (often interacting with 'friends' online) or they go to the home of their friend and, likewise, they often play indoors.

I truly believe that the climate-controlled dwellings of today are a large part of the reason; I know that personally I'd generally far prefer to be indoors in my climate-controlled 72F dwelling versus outdoors riding a bike or similar and I'd imagine the same, unfortunately but not surprisingly, holds true for children as well.

As a fairly new parent with another on the way, I'm not sure to what extent we'll try to combat this; as a child myself "screen time" was often a point of contention though in my case it was also the early start of my career.
I agree, excellent explanation of all things web. One recent example that stands out, their Django tutorial puts the official Django tutorial to shame imo
The US has fifty different independent justice systems run by sovereign, independent States. Each of those States has the power to appoint judges in whatever manner it wants, so of course you get some variety. It’s not like “America decided” to have local judges be elected.
Mozilla actually has a contract with CloudFlare to protect user data. It's stricter than CF's normal privacy policy which applies to other users of the DNS-over-HTTPS service. Only 3 types of aggregate information will be kept for more than 24 hours. https://developers.cloudflare.com/1.1.1.1/commitment-to-priv...
Federal Appeals Court Errs a Second Time on Device Privacy at the Border
Oh the irony. The company that literally brought heroin to market, gets a bad name from buying a company known for heavy-handed corporate litigation practices.

To be clear I'm not trying to blame Bayer for the opioid epidemic. I just think there's a joke in there
Why would Microsoft give away their crown jewels to a competing IDE? They spent ages perfecting their debugger.

It's not like JetBrains can't build their own debugger based on the ICorDebug interface (which is what Microsoft's implementation is also based on).
We can do things like installing Ubuntu directly from the Windows Store - even if you despise MS you must concede they are changing for better.
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> We are committed to being stewards of the GitHub community, which will retain its developer-first ethos, operate independently and remain an open

> Finally, we will bring Microsoft’s developer tools and services to new audiences.

Which one is it ? Those statements are just contradictory .

It's obvious that they will bring all their stuff into Github as it has become a central piece for MS Engineers and has become strategic for them , either to optimize engineers productivity or just to better sell their products and Azure/Visual Studio Services Package.

Meaning whether or not you like MS tools , you will get some "Open in Visual Studio" button , send in "Microsoft Team" buttons etc... and probably more stuff like this that most people didn't wanted in the first place.

This is really a terrible day for Open Source.
You said the manufacturer was in SZ (so I assumed it means Shenzhen). The book is about international companies contracting with Chinese manufacturers, and talks about manufacturing in China. The resulting products are not sold in China but in the US.
> There's not much about Github that can't be easily replaced.

Integration and workflow. Thanks to the various gubbins available in the marketplace[0], CI/CD goodies, hooks into communication and project management tools and so on, for a lot of people migrating away from Github would mean losing access to enough little convenience things that actually it's not feasible for a large organisation with not great process change management techniques.

https://github.com/marketplace
Networking hardware, mostly, especially cellular and POTS switching stuff.
It absolutely is what I make of it. I got the team that I wanted in the city I've wanted to live in since I was a kid. I want to make the most of it personally but I have doubts I'll get much out of it even with that. I'm really afraid of getting PIPed within the first review cycle. My stock isn't going to appreciate much either and my TC is very low compared to my peers.
Sebastian Seung is doing some of the coolest stuff in neuroscience, so this should be impactful for Samsung.
Sorry, wrong book. Read both in succession.

(Partial) History of Java in finance is covered in Dark Pools by Scott Patterson.

Reason was from snowball effect starting very small with a lot of altruistic one finance/tech person helping out another in a different firm. I'm not sure I'm going to that justice in a short comment, so simply recommend getting the book.
* Drop Windows and contribute to WINE

* Drop OOXML and make ODF the default format

* Drop the patents

* Drop the telemetry

* Drop Xbox

* Drop DirectX

* Drop the cloud garbage

* Drop or open MSVC

* Drop or open Edge

* Actually open .NET
Supreme Court judges are not elected because they’re federal judges, and no federal judges are elected. It has nothing to do with how “supreme” they are.
On the other hand, as soon as banks become really big, they loose interest in ordinary customers.
In Switzerland the services of big banks like Credit Suisse or UBS are getting worse while getting more expensive at the same time.
This causes people to switch to smaller local banks because they can better tend to their needs and are more willed to grant them loans.
Or you know - use BitBucket that allows unlimited number of private repos for free afaik.
Friendly reminder: Skype was pure garbage before MS acquired it. I have no idea from where people got the idea that MS ruined Skype.

Started the browser wars? Too bad the browser wars have been too small, because we obviously haven't learned anything from them.
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> Seeing GitHub acquired, I’d speculate that Gitlab will go that route sooner or later.

Bingo. It's bizarre to hear people stampeding to GitLab when they're subject to the same financial and revenue pressures as GitHub or any other business. Somebody's paying for those servers and bandwidth and that somebody is expecting a return on their investment.
MS has far many more project opened source than just VSCode. Maybe they will do the same for github, which ahem.... is not.
How can we detect something that doesn't interact with anything?
When you see a fox entering a chicken coop would you also say the same? Microsoft will most likely gut GitHub, not as badly as Oracle would have done it but they will.

This said, Free Software Devs should never have trusted GitHub in the first place.
Economics is not a zero-sum game. Just because the company is making money doesn't mean that you are losing something.

Github has been underwater for years, would you rather it be propped up by a big corporate sponsor that can subsidize its losses, or run out of money and die?

I expect to move, because I also do not trust microsoft, but I am not moving yet until I see what they do with it.
Google did face backlash and it wasn't to this level because its use wasn't nearly as ubiquitous
Every answer will be speculative as the constitution doesn't explicitly say and the Supreme Court hasn't ruled on the matter (yet).

It's worth noting accepting a pardon is an explicit admission of guilt as ruled in Burdick v United States [1]

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burdick_v._United_States
I'm not going to defend Monsanto's bad business practices, but I don't think I've ever met someone who accurately articulated real problems with Monsanto as opposed to hysteria and conspiracy theory, so this is probably the best move over all.
Phrases don't lose their relevance due to age. If they do, they do it because the situation has changed, and similar situations haven't come up.

For example, the phrase "doublespeak" is much older and also especially relevant today.
NJ AG’s Office Ramping Up Data Privacy and Cybersecurity Enforcement Efforts
> but they still are a for-profit company that needs to continue to make a profit.
This was to make Microsoft money, nothing to 'help programmers'.

What a strange criticism. Of course Microsoft is a for-profit company and they're doing this to make more profit - no one is of the delusion of otherwise. They didn't spend $8b out of the goodness of their heart.

However, one way you make money is to do and make things people like. Here's hoping Microsoft will recognise the value Github can provide and they do right by it. I'm cautiously optimistic.
MS and GH: MEH
Microsoft makes all of it's money from PC sales and software licensing.

Meanwhile, they basically invented the "buy your competitor and tank their business" strategy. That's probably what this person is referring to.
It's hilarious to see people kvetching about lock-in here when probably 90% of HNers are working on projects locked into AWS or something else in their stack.
So where’s the new SF?
> In November Munich city council decided to revert to Windows by 2020 with all systems being replaced by Windows 10 counterparts.

> Reasons cited were adoption and users being unhappy with the lack of software available for Linux.

> A report commissioned by Munich and undertaken by Accenture found the most important issues were organizational.

> In 2018, journalistic group Investigate Europe released a video documentary via German public television network ARD, wherein it is claimed that the majority of city workers were satisfied with the operating system, with council members insinuating that the reversal was a personally motivated decision by lord mayor Dieter Reiter.

> Reiter denied that he had initiated the reversal in gratitude for Microsoft moving its German headquarters from Unterschleißheim back to Munich.

It's not as clear-cut as you're painting it.
I love competition and choice, I'm not even a fan of Github but I see their importance in the game. I'm criticizing herd mentality and something bigger than where you host a repo. I'm asking for critical thinking and that is it.
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#2 doesn't work unless you can also provide that value, so it is still constructive. You cant keep customers from using something if you have no such offering yourself to compete with.
This is an altruistic move on Microsoft's part? Puhleaze. And Google routinely gets beaten up for killing projects, it's just that nobody used Google Code.
...and it has a yearly donation drive. Okay for a community project (in the sense of "steward to public data"), not okay for a service provider. And a service provider needs to cover costs - e.g. by running a customized, better version of the OS product.
I think the profit motive is exactly why change happens.

As soon as a company realizes it can make more $$$ with new strategy B than their original strategy A, then boom -- changed. (Sometimes you have to get rid of the old believers, but that already happened at Microsoft.)

If you look at MSFT's stock price, it's ~tripled since Satya became CEO, after being stagnant for years. He seems incredibly committed to open-source -- because in the long run it will ultimately be more profitable for Microsoft, no?
Who would you rather give an opinion on this topic if not an economics professor?
Well, they are not major enough, I guess.

Never heard of them.

Edit: http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/

No wonder this is not a popular site.
Outside of the US heroin is still very much on the medical market. It's used in hospitals mostly.
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Almost nothing in this article is accurate. We’ve been doing everything we can to improve SourceForge and we did not hide anything. The writer has an axe to grind for some reason, and maybe his anger is warranted, but it's definitely directed at the wrong people. https://sourceforge.net/blog/introducing-the-new-sourceforge...
My guess is upwards of 90% of users would not use features in MSOffice not available in Open/LibreOffice. Most organizations are "creatively encouraged" (ie. forced) to use MSOffice.

Similar for SQLServer - Windows shops kind of default to it.

VS is the exception.
Ever heard of East St. Louis?
well, there was the atom editor. which now i fully expect msft to kill in favor of vs code. damn it.
Allow install of Windows onto a partition and not overwrite the MBR
Awesome! Now we can end the mass delusion and realize Git sucks and has been a monumental drag on developer productivity. Thak you Microsoft!
With Microsoft's proven record of "obeying the law" by suppressing free speech in China, what does the future hold for dissident sites hosted on Github that resulted in the world’s largest DDoS attacks?
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