RE: Microsoft to acquire GitHub - What does this mean for crypto?
People just like to overreact and go into religious arguments. MS has done a ton for software development, both proprietary and open source. Why would MS be a thread for open source? It's open source, so accessible anyway. Why would MS be a thread to closed source github projects? Because it is evil, because it is a for profit company? What do you think github is? Also a for profit company, one with a terrible management hence the look for a buyer. Git is a distributed version control system but in practice most of the time a master branch is centralized somewhere. Github just happens to be one of the most popular solutions but by no means is it a big issue to move. I see absolutely no reason for open source projects to move except for religious arguments. Oh, and the oil-water argument. What about all the software microsoft opensources themselves? The popular visual studio code, .net runtime, all efforts to move towards *nix friendlyness, typescript, ... To say this has influence on crypto is total nonsense coming from people who absolutely don't know what they are talking about.
Edit: for some balanced discussion: an excellent read: Everyone complaining about Microsoft buying GitHub needs to offer a better solution
Yes, as VSCode that develops it first, it "sells" it as a free code but is under a proprietary license As it has done with so many other things. Sure, that you are talking about this.
Or xamarin that leaves the code open, but almost everything that exists about the project. It is associated with the services in the cloud of the own microsoft.. Or about how it seeks to make money from the absurd or more stupid unemployed, through selling crappy courses about office and powerpoint through linkedin and slideshare. Courses and information that is free through any place. But, as it is training signed and sealed by Microsoft, it's cool.
Microsoft tries to do what it has always done. Benefit and take advantage of the less savvy, and the world is full of them. This time with the new developers and programmers. With the least experts or small and medium enterprises.
People will never forget what Microsoft has done in the past... A few good things they have done recently doesn't balance the numerous bad things they have done since they got more popular in the PC-compatible operating system markets than IBM.