Comment by 7ewis
8 years ago
Putting aside my general dislike for Microsoft for a moment, I still believe this is bad for the tech industry.
It was great having a neutral player running the site, I don't think anyone should own them. GitHub would be best as a nonprofit, though unfortunately I don't think that will ever happen.
Imagine if CNN for example bought Twitter, would other news companies use Twitter still? Probably not.
Will Google, Amazon etc. move their code elsewhere? Maybe. But we will no longer have a centralised git repo, whether that's a good or bad thing.
GitLab have already said they're having 10x the amount of normal traffic migrating GitHub repos to them.
Will employers now ask to see your GitHub/GitLab/Bitbucket profiles?
yeah but frankly 10x of a small number is still a small number. we still have to see what the real numbers are.