<story><title>GitHub Is Microsoft’s $7.5B Undo Button</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-06-06/github-is-microsoft-s-7-5-billion-undo-button</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>yurishimo</author><text>I think the author nailed it. This is Microsoft&amp;#x27;s chance to reach out to developers and prove that they&amp;#x27;ve had a change of heart regarding open source.&lt;p&gt;We&amp;#x27;ve seen this over the years with previous code hosting platforms. If the platforms betrays it&amp;#x27;s users, developers are not scared to mass migrate to something else. The onus is now on Microsoft to keep developers happy or risk losing their $7.5B investment.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rqs</author><text>&amp;gt; prove that they&amp;#x27;ve had a change of heart regarding open source.&lt;p&gt;Change of heart? Why? I think they are doing a pretty smart move to be friendly towards open source community, but it&amp;#x27;s not because I believe they changed their mind and want to contribute to the open source world, instead, I simply believes they embrace open source community is because it&amp;#x27;s good for business.&lt;p&gt;You see, open source software these years became pretty good and infrastructural. If Microsoft can&amp;#x27;t be a part of it, then they will soon be obsolete. And they don&amp;#x27;t want to be obsolete, so they just can&amp;#x27;t afford to not be a friend with open source.&lt;p&gt;The real thing that I curious about is what would happen when Microsoft managed to re-dominates the software market (in both user and enterprise end). Will they still be friendly with open source community after that?</text></comment>
<story><title>GitHub Is Microsoft’s $7.5B Undo Button</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-06-06/github-is-microsoft-s-7-5-billion-undo-button</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>yurishimo</author><text>I think the author nailed it. This is Microsoft&amp;#x27;s chance to reach out to developers and prove that they&amp;#x27;ve had a change of heart regarding open source.&lt;p&gt;We&amp;#x27;ve seen this over the years with previous code hosting platforms. If the platforms betrays it&amp;#x27;s users, developers are not scared to mass migrate to something else. The onus is now on Microsoft to keep developers happy or risk losing their $7.5B investment.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sixothree</author><text>That to me is what DotNet Core is, along with Asp.Net, Entity Framework many years ago, and everything developer related becoming open source.&lt;p&gt;GitHub is just a signal to people who have been out of the loop, bloomberg and many linux developers.&lt;p&gt;When I start dropping my apps on their systems, they might be surprised how well they run.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;dotnet&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;dotnet&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;aspnet&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;aspnet&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>