back to article Microsoft will ‘lose developers for a generation’ if it stuffs up GitHub, says future CEO

GitHub’s future CEO Nat Friedman has conducted a Reddit Ask Me Anything (AMA) session and outlined a little of what Microsoft plans to do with the collaborative code locker once the acquisition is formalised and admitted that “if Microsoft screws this up, we will lose the trust of developers for a generation.” Friedman, who …

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    1. bombastic bob Silver badge
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      Re: Hotmail

      some time ago I had problems with my intarweb connection, so I tried using a dial-up to access an old hotmail address, which I normally access via the POP server. To say "bandwidth strangled" is a gross understatement. Outlook Webmail is IMPOSSIBLE with anything running at dial-up or even cellular speeds.

      Icon for the BIG THUMBS DOWN to Micro-shaft's bandwidth-intensive scripty CDN circle-jerking web pages.

      Expect this to happen on github. Multi-click-throughs where one should have been sufficient.

  1. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    The only thing Microsoft should lose the trust of is investors, for thinking Github has any value.

  2. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    Leaves a sour taste though..

    .. maybe its time to gitout.

  3. Dave 15

    windows 10

    Given the enormous fuck up that is windows 10 and the bollox they have made with the recent forced on you upgrade and the scewed up mess that was skype but now is shite... I would say they have lost already

  4. W. Anderson

    Microsoft Wins against multi-platform and FOSS development

    For every credible, world class developer whose target is "platform agnostics" that Microsoft dismisses to make Github more Windows/Microsoft centric and thus moves to another developer base, Microsoft will gain ten Windows/Microsoft software only developers to ultimately make Github its 100% Microsoft replacement developer community.

    Microsoft only developers do not give a rat's anus about cross-platform development or any other non-Microsoft based development (like FOSS), so they will flock to their heroine's feet in a flash.

    Just look at abysmal adoption of and move to (overwhelmingly popular) Eclipse multi-platform developer environment by Microsoft only developers, even as it offered significant developer advantages to those said developers.

  5. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    As someone who has hated with a passion what Microsoft has done over the years.....

    .... reading all the whiny paranoid posts from Linux/GNU people on this forum is starting to make me like them!

  6. Wayland

    Skype was excellent for years

    Then Microsoft bought it and it slowly changed into crap.

    Microsoft can't even keep their own products excellent. MS Access 1.0 was ground breaking. Access 2.0 was very solid and mature. From then on it went down hill until it became unusable.

  7. sisk

    A generation? Nah. The horror story would get passed down to baby developers as a lesson to never trust Microsoft for at least three generations. But he's right about Microsoft's recent acquisitions though. Minecraft in particular. I mean how may games can claim to have been the number one game in the world for several years in a row?

  8. phands

    M$ Lost me back in 2001..NEVER going back.

    I started using Linux way back in 2001, as I was already fed-up with m$'s software quality, lock in tactics, and bullying nature...not to mention what happens to m$ acquisitions...

    M$ kills everything it touches.

    Skype used to be the world leader, and worked well on Linux...now...it's unusable.

    Anyone even remember Danger?

    Navision is just gone.

    AQuantive got written off in 2012...$6.2B wasted.

    HotMail...a hot mess.

    LinkedIn is already a sea of irrelevant adverts.

    AND OF COURSE: NOKIA....need I say more?

    I've been a Unix and then Linux and Mac OS X user for decades...m$ is a negative force, and has held back computing progress by 10 - 15 years because it can't stop trying to put everything in a windows straitjacket, despite the fact that the windows architecture is prehistoric, doesn't network well, is bad at scaling, is woefully insecure, has poor file systems choice. I cite as support, the fact that the unstable Azure needs Linux to run reliably.

    My company, a small startup, uses GitHub at present...but not for much longer - I don't trust m$ even slightly, and will move ASAP.

  9. ecofeco Silver badge

    Sad

    Sad to see so many commentards who have forgotten the old ways and are held hostage by the new shiny.

    Fucking tossers. Roll yer own, remember sneakernet and stay free for the love of god.

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