On 2025-01-06 07:23, Chris Ahlstrom wrote:
Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote this post while blinking in Morse code:
On Sun, 5 Jan 2025 14:51:34 -0500, DFS wrote:
that Microslop-bound shit site known as GitHub.
Blows GitLab out of the water.
You’re not advocating the use of a service that runs on Linux, are you?
GitHub is yet another "product" that Microsoft purchased.
https://news.microsoft.com/2018/06/04/microsoft-to-acquire-github-for-7-5-billion/
Microsoft to acquire GitHub for $7.5 billion
June 4, 2018 | Microsoft News Center
Acquisition will empower developers, accelerate GitHub’s growth and advance
Microsoft services with new audiences.
Such innovators, aren't they?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mergers_and_acquisitions_by_Microsoft
The table in there shows 276 acquisitions by "innovator" Microsoft.
:-D
Honestly, Chris isn't even clowning around here. Microsoft often buys
whatever company manages to provide a better program than they could
ever hope to produce. The problem is that the acquisition almost
immediately results in mediocrity for that company. Think about what
happened to Rare who used to produce some of the most memorable games
for Nintendo. Consider Skype which was once the most important videoconferencing program and is now surpassed by just about everyone.
We used to make jokes about it in the 90s: 1) create a company, 2)
produce a cool program, 3) wait for Microsoft to buy it, 4) quit, 5)
create a new company, 6) repeat.
If they didn't have a near monopoly on the operating system and office software, one has to wonder how they would make their money. Just about
every obvious innovation escapes them. I'll give you an example: when
iTunes emerged as a music store, Windows Media Player already had a
mechanism within it that would have allowed people to set up a
competitor, but they never bothered. They created their own awful music
store for 8, but closed it before 10. Another example is how they
essentially killed AOL Instant Messenger and ICQ with the release of
Windows Messenger, but decided to kill that off at the peak of its
popularity because they thought that everyone would migrate over to
Skype. Instead, they went to Facebook and its messenger before leaving
that too to whatever seemed fanciest. They already had what seemed like
a monopoly for instant messaging as a result of Windows Messenger being
bundled with the operating system and being tied to their e-mail
service, but they managed to screw that up too.
Like Justin Trudeau and Joe Biden, don't underestimate Microsoft's
remarkable incompetence.
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