Comment by Jedd
8 years ago
From at least two angles this is great news for Gitlab.
But it feels a bit like the Atlassian / Trello arrangement, which has had little impact on users.
From recent behaviour I'd expect Microsoft to have a very light touch here.
I'm not familiar with recent behaviour anything in particular? (My memory goes to Skype...)
Minecraft, LinkedIn as examples. While LinkedIn has not gone super well, it has been left to make the decisions that it made on it's own.
Minecraft has also gone untouched - it's still hosted on AWS in fact.
The Skype buy was seven years ago, and it was a pretty user hostile piece of software before that.
Post Balmer we've seen a more open (in the transparent, consultative, community sensitive sense) attitude, with genuine contributions to free software.
People also seem to be citing LinkedIn as an example, but that doesn't feel like it got any more unpleasant since the buyout.
They bought xamarin and then made it open source and free. They also have continued to support mono despite having .net core