Congratulations GitHub on the acquisition by Microsoft

[norswap]

Yikes. How untasteful. Nothing official yet but they're hurrying up writing some completely bullshit post to let people know that Github is being acquired by "M$" and hopefully migrate to them. The last paragraph says it all, "look at how we're different".

Frankly, why not just be honest and make this point directly. No need for the "we congratulate Github - Git is so important" oohs and aahs. We're not morons.

[skinnymuch]

That read was pretty distasteful. The acquisition isn’t even officially announced yet they go ahead and talk about “big bad” Microsoft’s surreptitious reasons and tactics for GitHub and developers.

[rendx]

What a lame post. Considering Microsoft's history, I would have expected something less generic, more opinionated, and stronger in statement about its own future.

I did like Gitlab and its features, but THIS post makes me reconsider and makes me want to switch to alternatives with an actual community that cares, like Gitea.

[zeusk]

It is lame because it serves nothing other than opportunistic advertising.

[sytse]

We're torn about Microsoft. They have a history but they've also been doing great things recently.

[jenga22]

This is in very bad taste.

We do not know who the acquirer officially is yet. They are also assuming that MS has already ruined GitHub.

Based on what we have seen in the last few years from Microsoft, they are very serious about not messing up when it comes to developer tools and the ecosystem.

They are also showing a huge capacity for working across platforms and being supportive of the community as a whole. I don't know where the pieces fall, but this was in poor taste.

Not good GitLab.

[_vertigo]

Can someone (who isn't projecting their own opinions of Microsoft) explain in simple terms what makes this so "trashy"?

So far the only legitimate complaints I've seen are:

1) The acquisition hasn't been announced yet (OK, what makes that "trashy"?)

2) This is opportunistic advertising (OK, what makes that "trashy"?)

[skinnymuch]

The post acts like Microsoft will mess up GitHub and has specific plans for Github already, which they likely do, but Gitlab isn’t in the know. The post is just saying things.

[tootie]

"Thank you for making the market and setting the price for our eventual acquisition by Google" is what I read between the lines.

[anothergoogler]

Google just shut down a code hosting service, what would they want with GitLab?

[ku6pk]

Pretty tasteless to publish an article like this without any concrete sources or even confirmations from the Microsoft/Github teams themselves.

"GitHub has earned mindshare within the developer community, and Microsoft’s acquisition is certainly an attempt to garner and cultivate that mindshare. However, the long term strategic implication seems to be that Microsoft wants to use GitHub as a means to drive Azure adoption."

Might be reading too much into this, but the above line in-particular drove me up the wall.

[amrrs]

Before Microsoft's / Github's PR team releases a piece Gitlab does one which is nothing but what People wouldn't want at any time. Gitlab is supposed to develop trust among the community rather than bitching about something that hasn't even happened just for the namesake user acquisition.

Perhaps, the team thought Make Hay while the sunshines - but Sun might set for them!

[JeanMarcS]

Meanwhile, their (questionable) strategy seems to work, as a pike in project import is happening

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17223116

Good ? Bad ? I don’t know neither judging. Just saying.

[craigvn]

I would suggest the majority of the spike are just playing, will settle down to a small bump.

[panarky]

This is what we call a backhanded compliment.

[kiloreux]

I wouldn't wanna be with such service provider. Very trashy behavior,I have switched to bitbucket and have been happy. This post just confirms my choice of not going for gitlab ever.

[spiderPig]

If anything this post is going to push people away from using Gitlab. It’s one thing to try and capitalize on it but this is just eww

[buremba]

"We applaud GitHub on its accomplishments and congratulate Microsoft on its acquisition. While we admire what's been done, our strategy differs in two key areas. First, instead of integrating multiple tools together, we believe a single application, built from the ground up to support the entire DevOps lifecycle is a better experience leading to a faster cycle time."

^ That's how you end up with a shitty product. Just use right tool for the right job..

[cyrux004]

Is the acquisition official yet?

[obl]

you have to get the PR in the oven while it's still hot

[jlisam13]

trashy

[m3rc]

The only reason I can think of for how many comments here are simply trying to call the post 'trashy' is that they were written by MS devs...

[craigvn]

Why? As the worlds leading contributor to open source and 40 years experience building development tools it is probably the best acquirer. Would you rather Oracle?