It's Official: Microsoft Pays Out $7.5 Billion For GitHub, Nat Friedman Becomes The CEO

[Indomitable]

I'm waiting when people that migrated their repositories to Gitlab find out that Gitlab is actually hosted in Azure.
Microsoft owns your code and you can not escape

[anarki2]

https://gitlab.gnome.org/explore/groups there is more than 1 gitlab. Once in gitlab migrating gitlab to gitlab is straight forwards.

GNOME's self-hosted GitLab is perfectly irrelevant to GitLab, as the company, but thanks for the irrelevant sidenotes.

Gitlab has been given the ability to self host for free because of the Microsoft problem.

This sentence makes no sense whatsoever. What is "self-hosting" in regards of cloud hosting (because GitLab is cloud hosted), how is it free, what's a "Microsoft problem"? Btw. they're actively migrating to Google Cloud (since they're paying their bills from Google Ventures' funding, it's not much of a surprise), and guess what, it's not free either. OTOH it has a "Google problem" I guess.

Github has been amazon. Still USA company with USA data access rules. Of course with Microsoft taking over you cannot expect that to stay the same. Microsoft will of course want to host on azure and this means migration.. Now what is better a migration that you control or a migration that microsoft does automatically. From hotmail and other examples you don't want to be caught up with a Microsoft auto migration.

Google, where GitLab is actively migrating to, is also an USA company, fyi.

I said possibly hostile. Microsoft is going to hostile to githubs current operational pattern.

That's you and your paranoid assumptions, nothing else.

[oiaohm]

GNOME's self-hosted GitLab is perfectly irrelevant to GitLab, as the company, but thanks for the irrelevant sidenotes.

Gnome self hosted Gitlab is supported by Gitlab personal. Gitlab company runs so much inside there own company and also runs so much outside for third parties like Gnome.

This sentence makes no sense whatsoever. What is "self-hosting" in regards of cloud hosting (because GitLab is cloud hosted), how is it free, what's a "Microsoft problem"? Btw. they're actively migrating to Google Cloud (since they're paying their bills from Google Ventures' funding, it's not much of a surprise), and guess what, it's not free either. OTOH it has a "Google problem" I guess.

Parties like Gnome do deals with Gitlab for support on hosting to avoid legal issues and third party issue. Even after migration to Google there will still be hosting issues to be considered.

That's you and your paranoid assumptions, nothing else.

No Microsoft track record for acquiring on-line companies that are not using their cloud services and then Microsoft migrating them with every single time they have caused outages in the migration process worst lasted 3 months. Its not paranoid assumptions when a company has basically a 100 percent track record of stuffing when particular set of conditions are meet. Every single time the migration has appear rushed. Maybe after all the failures Microsoft does it better this time but I would not be holding breath.

Github current operational pattern is paying for amazon AWS anarki2 are you saying Microsoft management are going to be happy doing this or will they rush the migration and stuff it up again. So using github could get a bit rough until everything is migrated.

https://about.gitlab.com/installation/

Besides if parties have a reason to need there gitlab on AWS. Gitlab supports installs are support on AWS.

[oiaohm]

I'm waiting when people that migrated their repositories to Gitlab find out that Gitlab is actually hosted in Azure.
Microsoft owns your code and you can not escape

https://about.gitlab.com/installation/

gitlab at this stage is using Azure for for prime site. But Gitlab will do paid support on google and AWS as well. Everything on that page you can pay for complete set of features on.

The problem with the cloud is if you are not footing the bill you normally don't have full control where you data ends up.

Besides if you have not use private repo any how microsoft bots already would have a copy of your stuff just like google bots will.

[Staffan]

Well that's that site gone then. Microsoft ruined Skype, ruined Nokia, hasn't managed to ruin Minecraft yet but I'm sure they will eventually.

[Luke]

On further testing today, I found the https://gitlab.com front page also attempting to load Google Ad Services. Here's what came up in NoScript in FF60: gitlab.com, boostrapcdn.com, cookiebot.com, googleadservices.com, googletagmanager.com, and optimizely.com. The Recaptcha came up on initial account formation using a "less reputable" as in non-US, non-ad supported email service, both with and without Tor. Recaptcha does not load in my non-Tor browsers (came up empty) so I only see it when I bother to continue to Torbrowser to deal with something using ReCaptcha. For most things I just walk away, closing the offending tab.

[wswartzendruber]

What they did with Halo since 2008 has been less than impressive.

[jpenguin]

At least there's https://notabug.org

[Ronshere]

You need to move your code off github before the deal is formally signed or MS will have access to it.

[ssokolow]

You need to move your code off github before the deal is formally signed or MS will have access to it.

So? It's all open-source. My only concern is whether Microsoft will add a Hotmail-style "You're locked out of your existing account until you buy a smartphone and tell us its number." change.