Everyone knows the tale of Brand X getting bought out by some faceless global conglomerate and going to shit, but does the opposite ever happen?

  • OrekiWoof@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    GitHub started adding new good features after being acquired by Microsoft

    • aes@lemm.ee
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      11 months ago

      didn’t they like… scrape everyone’s open source code for an ai and then gatekeep that shit to their own infra?

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      11 months ago

      Mixed feelings on this one; I think the jury is still out. I think I preferred GitHub being independent and focused on hosting source code and reviewing merge requests. But… I’m not sure if the product would’ve ended up any better without being under Microsoft.

      Microsoft lately seems to take pretty hands off approaches and follow the “don’t fix what isn’t broken” rule well, which seems to be working for them.

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        11 months ago

        They still behave like a monopoly. Microsoft owning everything is bad for tech even if they can throw money at it and make it “better.” I moved to codeberg.org and it’s been decent.