> The new deal shows Microsoft doubling down on the strategy of helping individuals and corporate developers adopt open-source software, despite its heritage of distributing products that cost money
replyThat is.....not the way anyone I know would describe Microsoft's history with the open source movement historically.....
Don't worry. I'm sure Microsoft will be as good of a steward of npm and its ecosystem as they have been for GitHub.
replyGH still has its own login system thankfully, and I can't even sign in with Microsoft or link my Linkedin profile in any way (at least from Github.com; I'm sure there's a public Linkedin-developed Github App). I'll take what I can get.
replyThe article is from 2020, so you may already be able to make that judgment.
replyThey've been a great steward of GitHub. You people have no perspective. They've kept an insanely generous free tier - free private repos, free CI runners including windows and Mac! And no ads.
replyName one other company that would do that.
I too would have kept it "free" for the LLM learning corpus and the way to nudge developers towards own cloud services and infrastructure. Github Actions is the first obvious deviation from vendor agnosticism here. If it's about "they didn't make profit maximization at all costs a priority" then I agree.
replyWhat are you saying? It's not ok for it to be free because they're using that to encourage people to use their paid services? Uhm no shit.
replyAnd your comment about LLMs is even sillier. Not only did they buy it 5 years before LLMs became relevant, but there's nothing stopping anyone other than Microsoft from downloading all of GitHub. Look at grep.app for example.
Yeah man, it's super free! And the paid product even works properly 4 out of 5 weekdays
replynode!=npm, and microsoft doesn't own the development of node.
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