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424 points kaycebasques | 2 comments | 20 Aug 24 03:30 UTC | HN request time: 0.207s | source
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throwaway290 ◴[20 Aug 24 10:23 UTC] No.41298609[source]▶
Preparing to get bought by Microsoft?
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1. mdaniel ◴[20 Aug 24 16:41 UTC] No.41301602[source]▶
I dunno the underlying tone to this message, but given the absolutely staggering number of MIT licensed repos under github.com/Microsoft I don't know that such a thing would be as bad as you envision

Now that GitLab is public, that's who I'd want to buy them, and there's precedent since (a) GitLab has already swallowed quite a few open source dev-tooling companies and (b) they already have a Sourcegraph integration so it would be very low drama to just fold it into the core offering and get rid of that stupid Elasticsearch dep

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2. throwaway290 ◴[22 Aug 24 10:02 UTC] No.41318477[source]▶
> given the absolutely staggering number of MIT licensed repos under github.com/Microsoft I don't know that such a thing would be as bad as you envision

Well they keep their main stuff carefully closed. Github isn't open source for example:)

And simply think would they pay Github the money they paid (or any money at all) if it was open source like Gitlab?

I guess if you say it's public and autonomous I wouldn't mind if Gitlab bought Sourcegraph. If MS did it I would mind a ton