Quoting: Shmerl

Quoting: jensThey need the GitHub community and the users to keep GitHub as the de-facto standard for professional source code hosting in the cloud.

Catch is, community doesn't need them really. With MS reputation, it would be hard to convince people to stay and even more so, new ones to join. I expect Github to lose its de-facto standard status in result of this. So it might be a good move for MS (from MS perspective) to lure people to Azure, but it's a ruinous move for Github itself and its community.

Sure, GitHub will take an initial hit by users leaving GitHub just due to the name "Microsoft". But how big that hit exactly is, is still to be seen. Don't forget that GitHub wasn't exactly a charity organization before. The community and free users were/are surely important to Github's business model, but at least equally important are GitHub's paying customers. As I stated, I expect that not that much will change to free users and open projects within foreseeable future.

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Interesting talk. Very cool to see some insights.

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The acquisition of GitHub makes perfect sense for Microsoft. They see their future in cloud services/Azure with Amazon and Google as their strongest competitors. With a GitHub-Azure integration they can offer the perfect CI pipeline in the cloud from source code hosting to platform hosting all with their own services, most Microsoft development solutions where all-in-one tools. This gives them quite an advantage over Amazon and Google. I don't think that anything will change for all the Open Source projects on GitHub, at least not with their current CEO. They need the GitHub community and the users to keep GitHub as the de-facto standard for professional source code hosting in the cloud. For earning money they are focusing on companies that already have or will have (private) repositories at GitHub and provide them a very smooth way straight to Azure (and not that smooth to Amazon/Google) for platform hosting.

I would have preferred GitHub as an independent vendor. That said I'm glad that Microsoft acquired them and not e.g. Oracle or Facebook.

Having a strategy for opting-out applies to all cloud services, not just for GitHub that happened to be acquired by Microsoft.

PS: Congrats to the GitHub CEO's.

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No idea...
Since we are talking about the radar, does anyone has an idea what the Mac only game ("Save poor Bob if you please") could be?)

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Currently I'm looking forward to "Life is Strange BTS". "Oxygen not included" (once out of EA) looks certainly interesting too.
A dream would be "Shadow of the Tomb Raider", though I guess I have to keep wishing for that one for at least the next 3 years ;)

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Quoting: Whitewolfe80Am of two minds on this on one hand its amazing how much progress wine is making and how much work the mesa team are putting in to make amd/intel graphics viable as a gaming option on linux. However I am also a little worried that Valve and other big developers thinking well we dont need to do a native linux port we can do a wine wrapper or failing that we can just leave it windows only and the linux community will figure out the dependancies to get to to work under wine.

Yes, this worries me too. But it can go both ways and also be a boost for Linux. Let's see what happens..
From the technical side this project is astonishing, and I have only just tested the Unique benchmarks.

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Quoting: liamdawe

Quoting: STiATGood to see that amd/valve vulkan developers actually fixed driver bugs because of DXVK finding them, like rendering glitches in WoW & The Witness (fixed 7 days ago, so I guess it will hit with the next mesa bugfix release).

Yeah it's pretty interesting that projects like this can give the Mesa developers a much bigger set of games to test against and improve.

I guess the same goes for NVidia. DXVK is a perfect project to harden and stabilize their new shader compiler. I guess that is one of the reasons why their devs are quite active at the DXVK github project. Win-win for both.

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Both Tomb Raider episodes are for me the best of the best of Linux gaming (fingers crossed that part 3 is also coming to Linux at some point)!
Thanks for all your work and all the best for your future path!

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Quoting: Eike

Quoting: TheSHEEEPBut: What I say is that there is a difference between hypocrites (people who say A and do B) and do-gooders (people who say A, do A, claim that A is good, but A is actually a bad thing once you think about it more deeply).

So, a try-do-gooder?

A naive hypocrite then? :)

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Quoting: Doc Angelo

Quoting: EikeLanguage is not something happening to us, it's something made by us. I feel (strongly), we shouldn't perpetuate the connotation of "doing good" and something bad. (There's something similar in German with "Gutmensch" (eng: "good human".))

I hate the term "Gutmensch". It just feels wrong to paint this rather straightforward term in a bad light. "Scheingutmensch" would be more fitting.

I can understand the definition of TheSHEEEP regarding "do-gooder" and where this is coming from. I know way too many people who tell about doing good all the time, but rarely put action behind their words. I also know people who are phrasing their views in over the top language, something like "all foreigners are nice and lovely!". Some people just love to appear as (purportedly) political correct as possible. That's a problem. But it's also a problem that many people who actually do something good - because they thought about it and came to the conclusion that they want to do this - sound just the same at first glance.

I really think "Scheingutmensch" in German and something like "pseu-do-gooder" would be more fitting and not as misleading.

I would go for "hypocrite", or in German "scheinheilig".

Just to be sure: From what I read here I'm pretty certain that Eike does not fall into the category of being hypocrite/"scheinheilig" ;)

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