GitHub - Why Microsoft Paid $7.5B for the Future of Software! - A Case Study for Entrepreneurs
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- GitHub - Why Microsoft Paid $7.5B for the Future of Software! - A Case Study for Entrepreneurs.
GitHub Inc. is a web-based hosting service for version control using Git. It is mostly used for computer code. It offers all of the distributed version control and source code management functionality of Git as well as adding its own features.
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As an IT person, this is by far the best explanation of DDoS that I have ever heard! :) And of course, great case study.
I appreciate that, I tried to make it chewable. Thanks - Tom
@@VALUETAINMENT it's an ages old analogy that originated with the expression "try taking a sip from a fire hose going full chat" or very similar. I used that in multiple presentations over 25 years ago. 😁
except when you confuse pixel with picture
Didn't know one could not understand it.
Not quite, GitHub has a pretty good throat.
As a developer, I'm really impressed by they way you're explaining technical information to non-technical audience. Most people would either use a too simplistic analogy which breaks down, or will convey too much details which are just confusing for the non-technical people. You manage to avoid both of these pitfalls.
I think the DDOS analogy was a bit over complicated. Suggestion: describe it in percentage of server capacity.
Example: Company X has a average traffic of 150 Mbps, and a peak traffic of 300 Mbps. They build their server to handle 500 Mbps for future proofing. Anything more would be wasted resources. When they are hit with even a 550 Mbps attack (110% capacity), it effects their customers. A 1.25 Gbps attack would be 250% their capacity and makes the server unusable for actual customers.
No need for converting to sips of soda.
Otherwise great content.
Great summary for tech folks. Most of the VT audience is non tech which is why I went that way. Thanks - Tom
As a dev, I appreciate the time you take for explaining what is DDOS to your viewer. FYI, DDOS is one of the oldest tricks in the books, but it's still relevant as ever.
You are welcome - wanted to help a non-dev person understand. Thanks - Tom
Every Friday I have an appointment with my Biz Doc.
Love it! Thanks - Tom
Love these case studies
TeamAutismpedia me too. It gives me insight into companies I normally wouldn’t know about.
TeamAutismpedia me 2
Thank you to all of you!!! Thanks - Tom
me too
Absolute best business case studies on TH-cam. 🤯
This guy is legit. Bravo 👏
You are legit as well - thank you very much!!!!! - Tom
His dance too
my journey into the future has just begun! I'm a first year Engineering student and I really just would be happy to be a part of something so unifying as becoming a loyal team member. I know how to accomplish a mission a team is driven towards and follow orders, i'll never leave a man behind and will carry my friends during the times they were it was my turn to pull the weight. I will learn quickly because i'm open minded and not afraid of failure. Anyone need an apprentice? I'm not perfect, but each day I progress because I get what I give. Who ever is the Shepard lead the way for me to follow!
'China, you're gonna be playing whack-a-mole until the return of Christ.'
What a great saying.
Highly suggest everyone read the book "The Hard Thing About Hard Things" by Ben Horowitz, cofounder of Andreessen Horowitz. Great book on his journey to building a software company which was sold at a 1.6B valuation after suffering through laying off hundreds of employees and almost going bankrupt.
Great color, great Book. Thanks - Tom
Thanks for the suggestion
Thank you.
Dave Robertson Dave Robertson I’m not a programmer and it’s one of my favorite books. Lots of valuable business lessons to learn from it, I don’t think you need to be a programmer to grasp it.. at least for me
Nics thanks, i was looking for a book about that, do you know how much money of that billion and half do the founders keep? Or the investors had too much share of the company and had the best profit of selling the company. Thanks again!
I really love these case studies. Plz keep doing them! Just a bit of constructive feedback tho: use pic or pix as shorthand for pictures rather than px. Px is the shorthand (and CSS) for pixel.
That guy who wrote in on the board has a lot of creativity!!! Those colors damn look good!!!
"You're gonna be playing Whack-A-Mole until the return of Christ!"
Best quote since Jon Stewart said "The last words heard before the world ends... 'It worked!'"
(I paraphrase Jon because I can't remember the exact words.)
I truly love all the different ways Valuetainment puts out videos. You guys definitely have built something great. Thank you for your explanation of GitHub Tom!
You are very welcome. Glad to do it. Thanks - Tom
Holy Smokes this was a Great Video! Fantastic Presentation... Subscribed.
Thank you very much - appreciate that. Welcome! I hope the content in the coming weeks gives you even more value. Thanks - Tom
@@VALUETAINMENT I tried hard to get a new product to market twenty years ago but ran out of investment capital. I wish these tools would have been available in those days. However, even as some of my ideas have since seen the light of day, your positive attitude presented here gives me hope that perhaps I should get back in the game with some of my other ideas still not on the market. Thank you so much Doc!
This presentation is end-to-end vacuity. This is for entrepreneurs who have oatmeal for brains.
Very informative. GitHub Journey narrated well with all the facts and figures.
I love that! I have had that theory forever... "Leave someone better than you found them." You two are the best! I adore your nerdy show, I feel intellectually stimulated. Thank you Tom you are the best!! Loves you! Darlene Loves 💓
Thank you so much for that! It’s nice to know a nerd has fans! Thanks - Tom
Use the metric system! #america
I apologize I should’ve done it in gallons and liters. You are correct. Thanks - Tom
Valuetainment No need to apologise. The imperial system is not inferior to the metric system, you should be free to choose whichever you prefer.
@Vee Eight: The imperial "system" isen't a system. Its a clusterfuck
I always find it so ironic that the FIRST country to become independent from Imperial Britain in 1776 is now the LAST and only (major) country using a measurement system from British Empire days! Myanmar and Liberia hardly count as major. But there again, as is often said, Americans rarely get irony! 😱🤔😁😁
@@byebye9785 That's what Lockheet Martin said in 1999 when they have blown 125 Mio. $ (according to inflation it's today 189 Mio. $) of a NASA spacecraft, because NASA uses the metric system which is an SI unit and used throughout science world wide.
Absolutely GOLD these case studies are. The only reason I am still subscribed to this channel after it turned another buzz-feed like "X things about Y" kind of videos.
Appreciate that. Thanks - Tom
Love his DDoS description. :D
very illustrative!
For a techie like me I found the explanation too much overkill 🤣
The DDOS description in video presumes the viewer is a total moron. Hopefully the audience of this channel does not have them so many as the author thinks. :)
Well I am a moron who saw the news and googled this so it's was very nice to understand
If you use git and understand how it works = you are not a moron. If you don't - what the heck are you doing here?
If you were a college professor or even a speaker I would sooooooo sign up for your classes/seminars! ❤❤❤
It is so rare for a speaker to grab and hold my attention the way you do. Plus you have a way of breaking down complex allegories into layman's terms for others to follow.
Bravo!!! 👏👏👏
Could you please do a case doc on supercell, the gaming company that created clash of clans and clash royal.
Good suggestion. Let me put it on my list and do some research. Thanks - Tom
2 minutes in and subscribed. I need this in my life.
As long as github is open-source and the business model isn't adjusted it would keep attracting developers.
Thank you for being a new subscriber! Welcome! We hope to leave you better than we found you. Thanks - Tom
linus is one genius.
i use git and linux.
thx bro
And so is Satya Nadella with all his recent acquisitions for MSFT 👍
You know it’s friday when you see a casey study in your notification bar!
Indeeeeeed!!!! Thanks- Tom
Your answers always make me happy I love it how you always find the time to answer my comments, you're one of the reasons I'm never leaving this channel!
13:45 Tom, dropping math like a boss
Charles Botensten , lol... true
Once a geek always a geek. Or is it nerd? Either way, it’s me. Thanks - Tom
Valuetainment 2MB phone camera, though? Even budget phones offer 8MB these days!
I sat through your entire presentation watched it and heard it.That means something. congratulations, well spoken,well explained,lot of detail, a simple blackboard like graph turned into an awesome modern looking graph. Great stuff.Keep up the good work Tom. You have an admirer, I mean by this an admirer of the content and not the person. Which in my language means the message came home.
I deeply appreciate those comments. Thank you for being a viewer. Thanks - Tom
Microsoft did not just buy GitHub because they were using it but to get access to all the codebase from private repositories.
That's a good theory!
Literally 2:41 in and I need to sub. My subscription list has been missing this component of software engineering. Thanks my guy.
Great to have you. I hope we don’t let you down with the case studies and the other content. Thanks - Tom
Only time can tell, Microsoft makes money from open source, and their Azure host tons of Linux OS and container. But will they open source Office, IE (no one want it even though), Visual Studio, MS SQ Server? I don't see them happening. Did they make duo boot linux from UEFI easier? No, if it is not the opposite. Do they still charge Microsoft Tax on PC to depress Linux? Or do they refund you money if you delete Windows when buying Laptop? Not seeing that yet. So, yeah, Microsoft loves linux, but it is like Cat 'loves' fish type of love.
my birthday wish would be seeing m.r ellsworth posting new case study every week
We may get back to that! Thanks - Tom
Lol, dude was fired for giving harsh feedback. wow
I imagine outside the US, UK, and Australia that would be called being a good boss.
You are toooo good man, explaining all the worthwhile 10 year details in just over 15min
This acquisition is coming on the heals of Microsoft buying its way into the Linux foundation and is a clear sign that the embrace extent extinguish mantra is a live and well at the "new" Microsoft. They have even created their own branded Linux distro for IOT devices. The current popular FOSS tools are about to be either destroyed outright or tarnished severely. But the silver lining is that the FOSS movement will just start moving platforms and forking projects like they always do.
keegan myers has
"You're Microsoft, you're trying to be a monopoly, you don't support FOSS, you don't like Linux"
*Fires CEO, embraces Linux, starts being open and inclusive with developers*
"You're trying to take over Linux and open-source!"
I think you're overreaching here. They've noticed that being open and interfacing with independent developers GROWS their business. At this point in time, 'extinguishing' Linux and Github would destroy their entire business and lose them the entire industry. I'm curious, what could they possibly do to earn your support? (Not trust, never trust a business, we should constantly check them and give support when they perform appropriate actions)
Develop an opensource code editor? Oh wait... github.com/Microsoft/vscode
Release the core that runs Javascript in their browser? Oh wait... github.com/Microsoft/ChakraCore
Be open to community feedback/developers? Oh wait... they use UserVoice where you can submit feedback, vote and comment on ideas for their various products... ex. todo.uservoice.com
They have 1,845 repositories of open source code. That looks an awful lot like they're serious. When they actually do the right thing you need to give them credit to encourage them to do that more.
keegan myers n
keegan myers has
Sure, pick a few cases where Microsoft looks good. But that is ignoring all of the BAD. Like their spyware they included in Win 8 & 10, the backdoors they included for themselves. Their long history of opposing Linux, to the point of wrangling big names away from Linux, unfounded slander, and the many cases where they have made direct statements against open source.
So they make their own Linux type Windows, which still has a BUNCH of closed source code in it. Their way of being "hey we are supporting open source". But open source means ALL code, not just a portion of it.
Take in the whole picture, not just a few small bits. Micro$oft is very clear on their lack of care towards user privacy and their obsession with closed source platforms.
Microsoft is a HUGE company. Having 1,845 open source repo's doesn't mean much, as it ends up being a small percentage of their total output. Sure.. I saved 1,845 lives last year, but ignore the several million that I took. ?? logic?
that DDos explanation thou xD
Hope you liked it. Thanks- Tom
China: *wants to block GitHub*
Me: *Pretends to be shocked*
Why couldn't school be like this? Excellent explanation!
Microsoft is using Github as a tool. They need it to write software.
*They bought a tool that they were already using !*
They bought data, MS and Google always buys stuff and datamines personal data for their psychopathic dream of becoming tincan robot and live forever...
yeah, and instagram was bought just for the hability to store pictures, youtube was bought because google didnt know how to play videos... banks aquire other banks because they run out of space to store all the money....
you really need to get some perspective
Yep FB bought insta so they could have ownership of a treasure trove of model pics to beat off too. That's a billion bucks spent very well if you ask me.
@mipmipmipmipmip I highly doubt they have any idea intention of shutting it down.
MS is the biggest contributor to GitHub!
I learned more about DDoS attacks in this video than Microsoft's motivations for buying Github. Although it might have been a lot of speculations, I would have wanted to have a bit more details about how different business units of MSFT could benefit from the acquisition and how it could potentially bolster MSFT's image in the open source community.
WARNING:-
whole video is abt history of github and not exactly why Microsoft bought it
ans given by him at the end is that "MICROSOFT IS CHANGING"
😂😂😂
I love how you take the time to answer even the smallest comments, that's good practice.
Appreciate it!! Thanks - Tom
Because google, apple etc... may have private repos & microsoft now have acess haha.[evil laugh]
NSA and M$
They probably have their own private git systems on their servers
Love how he got passionate explaining DDoS :)
May I ask how does GitHub earn money?
private repositories..most repos are public (open source software), private repos cost money
Subscriptions. There is a free tier, which gives you basic perks, but if you pay more, you get more. It's like Dropbox, they offer something like 5GB of free storage to anyone, but if you pay extra, you get more storage, and more perks.
Quite possibly the best channel on TH-cam. Always providing quality and relevant content.
github will be used by tech giants to adapt open scource code from smart coders and adapt it and write a version of thier own.
Microsoft: "We love the MIT license"
This man is such a cool dude! He just took the best route of adressing the current sentiment against Microsoft.
Comparing Microsoft products I've used over the years to today's alternatives, I'm not all that impressed with MS at all anymore, especially when I compare how easy it is to use their products and how well they work (cost vs free aside). I don't think Microsoft will improve GitHub--I think they will make it worse. Example products would be workplace communication tools: MS cloud mail and chat (Outlook and Teams) versus Google's (gmail) and Slack. Those MS tools are extremely painful. Also, I don't think Skype (an acquisition) has evolved much at all since MS bought it. I think their OS (bread and butter) is heavy and limited compared to GNU/Linux for both servers and workstations.
Windows 10 is solid, Office is multi-platform and great on each one, Visual Studio is by far the best IDE, Azure is incredible in what it offers... Microsoft has been doing a lot of great things in the 201x decade
If you think Microsoft cracking open the cheque book to cut a $7.5B cheque is them being more open source friendly, then you're missing their very long history of "embrace, extend, and extinguish". It's far from clear exactly why Microsoft is splurging a big balls of cash on the biggest web frontend to git. That's left a lot of open source developers very nervous about the uncertainty over why exactly Microsoft is throwing its cash around to elbow their way into authoritative positions (including the Linux foundation) over their projects and communities. Corporations aren't exactly known for big spending splurges out of the goodness of their hearts, after all. But, it was a very good rundown on the Github business history, regardless.
I appreciate those words and your insight is based on facts and history so we will all wait and see what happens this time and hope that somehow it is different. Thanks - Tom
While I've heard of GitHub, I'm not familiar with their way of generating income.
Like all snake oil salesmen, they work on emperors and their court, i.e., venture capitalists that can't work a flip phone and don't care if they lose their money because they have so much of it and are investing in all the tech they can ^^
They have services you can pay for to get more out of thier platform. Team setups, tools, storage, etc
Microsoft has always invested heavily in their developer community. Github fits pretty well in their portfolio, they can provide a lot. The big issue MS faces is that github is designed to work well with non-MS software.
Microsoft today is very different then they were in the past, but many developer still view them with suspicion. They will monitor every move and jump on any perceived improper conduct.
So the challenge for MS will be adding Microsoft centric features without alienating the open github base. For example, they will almost certainly integration Github with Azure, their cloud computing platform. If rolled out properly, it will allow developers to choose Azure among other products and demonstrate their value, but not force them to (or annoy them into doing it).
Thanks for another great video. Never heard of GitHub until now...Would love to see a case study on Tencent.
Keep up the great work!
Will do. Thanks - Tom
For those of you interested in the title of this video it starts at 16:00
Great analysis as always Tom.
I think buying GitHub was a good choice from MS, computing and programming as we used to know it is evolving, now most of the code written transits at some point on github. Either MS places itself early, or it will lose relevance since Azure isn't really popular among devs.
Docker made it easy to deploy apps and OSes no more Windows dominance, Tensorflow is very popular, AWS is a better cloud solution, what does MS have? Now they have github.
Being an opensource Licensing analyst, i just hope Microsoft takes care of Github well.
I agree with you. Time will tell. Thanks - Tom
he did brought us linux, he brought us the Linux "kernel", then the GNU foundation brought open source tools surrounding that kernel, pay some respect and call it GNU/Linux
Exactly, most people aren't aware of GNU when they're using a so-called "Linux distribution." It should be called GNU/Linux instead. And BTW, Linux kernel would probably not be open-source if it wasn't for GNU.
MS saved yet another company, good guy MS.
Are you serious with this me2 bull$hit?
I love business case studies, I love F1. You are the man. I would pay to watch this, keep it up.
something that always bothered me if you a co-founder and have like 20% in the company and you get kicked out will you still be getting 20% of the income , do you still own 20% or do you lose all?
You still own 20% of the company, they can't force you to sell it nor can they take it from you. And you also get your dividends if they're distributed that year proportional to how much shares you have, if that is what you meant by income.
You keep 20% that you own. But now you are on the outside waiting for the company to be sold some day. Thanks- Tom
thanks guys , yes the dividends yearly pay outs is what is referring to , basically the cut private investors get
King Wiwuz IV Microsoft gets to control the company if they own 51% or more of it. Most decisions in a company are taken by simple majority. You dont need to own 100% of the company to control it.
Or they'll dilute your ass down Zuckerberg, Peter Thiel style, like they did to Saverin.
For non-software based companys Githubs a growing secret to keep evergreen documentation either through git,email,or custom wikis. Even for enterprises that aren't open source. For example customers can supply edits to an article to correct outdated information, the Github UI|api then lets them request it be added to the knowledgebase with a clear indication of what's been change by who and when along with tools to revert(undo) changes. Microsoft themselves started doing this process around
with docs.microsoft.com to get control over the sheer scale of documentation that went obsolete every day.
var github = gitlab
// problem solved
I love the formula! Thanks - Tom
I already left GitHub for GitLabs because it has more generous initial limits for users, probably because they're the newer company. I'll probably use GitHub for anything I publish to npm however.
Not gonna lie, 7 billion is such a sweet sound, I don't even blame GitHub for selling out. I would have if I were in their shoes. So it's good there are alternatives. But power centralizes. Centralization is a matter of when, not if. So we'll see how long GitLab lasts before selling out. But at least we have it how it is today until that time.
Centralization is not an options if the product is open source and any joe can fork it and host it somewhere else or for himself... Smart monopolies must make use of open source not fight against it (no chance). Google is smart others are learning from them.
But gitlab is hosted by microsoft so
Tom, I really appreciate your analysis on these videos. I don't know how you figure all this analysis out, but it's awesome, jam packed and broken down in such smart way. In other words, your awesome!!! Thank you!!
I really appreciate that. I work hard and try to learn more with every case study so the next one is better than the last one. I am
humbled your comment. Thanks - Tom
Microsoft has ruined everything they've bought. Remember Skype? It should have been the dominant chat software and is still functionally the best, it's just been Microsofted.
That was b4 nadela
It's no different for me as a regular user, compared to pre-acquisition. I do like though that they now offer (post-acquisition) free private repos. But BitBucket and GitLab (and a few others, including MS's own Visual Studio, and Perforce's Helix Team Hub) have done so for a long time, GH was just catching up in that. But there are tools/connections specific to GH to make it worthwhile as a git remote over BB , GL, VS, or Helix. AWS and Google also offer the free private repos for individuals, but use nonstandard intferfaces (it's not easy to get one's public key to the remote for pushes/clones etc,, as it is on GH, BB, GL, or VS).
MS Skype keeps breaking. I think Microsoft wants to replace it with Teams.
Positive effect for Microsoft briefly touched in the video: in developer circles Microsoft had a very bad reputation for a long time, but with recent moves (e. g. open sourcing .NET core, VS Code) they've clawed their way back into developers' hearts. It feels like they stopped dragging you into their ecosystem (Apple approach). The acquisition of GitHub just reinforces that feeling. So far developers' resonance has been quite positive, though some concerns remain.
The migration from Github to Gitlab has already started in the Linux community and i hope others follow. Microsoft can not be trusted, just look at their history when it comes to open source software.
I saw that and I heard about it. Thanks - Tom
i`ll be laughting when someone shittier buy gitlab ajajaja
The way you explain the case study is top-class!!
Appreciate those words! Thanks - Tom
I really hope you are right and Micro$oft is changing for good. Because having them in the FOSS world after such a long time being against it makes most people feel suspicious about them. We know of their Embrace Extend and Extinguish modus operandi. If they really love Open Source, they can prove it overnight: if they Opensource Windows Office, NTFS, exFat, etc, (even a 20 yearold version of windows woud do) , then there you are, otherwise they just use Open Source and contribute to it for what they need, nothing else, when it's convenient for them, otherwise they stop supporting, Tthey only use Open Source and contribute to it for their own advantage and interests. Their love is an interested one.
Let's hope they do as they promised and they won't change the rules because freedom is not true freedom anymore if they can say anything about it.
i doubt it.
microsoft itself has their own repository software.
THEY NEVER needed the capabilities of github.
but saw github as a COMPETITOR.
and opensource is a threat to them as well.
LINUX itself is gaining more traction chipping a little at their os marketshare.
C++ vs C#.
yeah well.
We have good reason to be suspicious of microsoft.
Microsoft purchasing GitHub is a good look. They doing things for software development. One up to them.
When Microsoft take over companies they are investing and thinking long term. So Github will be used my Microsoft. In a way we probably aren’t expecting
I happen to agree with you on that one. Good comment. Thanks - Tom
They are the biggest user of Github and in fact helped Github develop architectures and features for them, features that are beneficial for other users and companies that have been merged into the core. Not only was the acquisition great for Github (saving them, most likely), it also is self-serving for Microsoft to keep the service they use working. You're absolutely right in their long term strategy. I was skeptical on the Wunderlist acquisition by Microsoft and they took the core of the application and rebuilt it as To-Do, now it's integrated with O365 and nearly has feature parity with Wunderlist (which they've kept running just so you wouldn't lose features in the meantime). I love this deal and have been seriously impressed with MS since Satya Nadella took over.
People keep complaining that Github won't be open source anymore (hint: it's not, it just hosts free code) and it will be a subscription service now (hint: it already is for business users). It will stay exactly how it is now, which is pretty much how Microsoft products already work, like how there's free Outlook accounts and there's enterprise grade Exchange services.
When Microsoft takes over a company it ransacks the victim completely. Only a carcas remains. Look at Nokia, once it was the most innovating telephone manufacturer, MS bought it, forced it to Windows and then it was dead!
Nokia was dead before MS owning it.
Microsoft seems to have the most open source Code on GitHub. They probably just wanted to aquire it before their Competition like Apple or Google get a chance to buy away it aways with all the Code they put up.
this is the new history channel
RIP GitHub. Microsoft ruined so many companies by buying them.
Time will tell,..... Thanks- Tom
thats unfair, the ration of company murder done by google is far higher
My favorite entrepreneurship channel is now doing a video on software, yes!
Look we the devs don't trust too much in MS because we've seen what they do so many times, They'll have to gain the trust of the community before see the winning on this purchase
I think you make a very good point about that and time will tell. Can we trust Microsoft or not? We will all find out. Thanks - Tom
Ah, MS just bought access to every single line of code. And that's all they've ever wanted.
When the news reach, a lot of the people took off their codes and send it to Gitlab
Diego I. Hidalgo D.
And you actually think there weren't any backups?
I didn't say that there weren't backup, way that github operates creates a backup, what I want to say is the amount of trust that the devs have in MS that the news provoke a massive take out from the site.
Dude, that was the best non-tech explanation of a DDOS attack. Loved the case study. Just stumbled upon your channel, hope to find more cool stuff.
Was there anything that Microsoft bought that they did not destroy?
Internet Explorer, Nokia, Skype, Linkedin, Spotify, Minecraft .. github :( and so many more...
R.I.P.
Gustavo Neves linkedin, Skype, internet explorer and github and minecraft are successfull.
Hyderabadi Narendra how Internet Explorer and Skype successful. Google chrome and Google meetup destroyed them.
Gustavo Neves But Skype, Spotify, and Minecraft are still around.
LinkedIn is a graveyard nowadays. Skype is no longer used by the people, everybody went to WhatsApp. I still have Skype on my computer, I still use it to send SMS (Americans call this text-messages) but that is it. Years ago I skyped daily, now nobody is on, all have left!
We still use Skype. The new UI is terrible though.
As an original power user of Lotus 1-2-3 spreadsheets, and later Lotus Notes development, I will never forget the unethical, underhanded tricks by Microsoft to prevent Lotus success. "The day is not done until Lotus doesn't run..." was one motto they had. They intentionally embedded code in the early Windows OS to cause constant problems for the Lotus 1-2-3 windows version. They intentionally lied and played backhanded tricks on Lotus Notes when the US Navy was planning to adopt Notes. Microsoft is not ethical.
Most people are too young to remember the tricks these bastards pulled ... no better today; just go shopping and buy what you want.
Microsoft will look this going. Lots of potential.
I think so too. Thanks - Tom
yeah, sure - like Skype..
yet another project ruined by microsoft...
It could, if it doesn't treat to consolidate them around Microsoft services but as a standalone with some new features with Microsoft products.
George Eliozov :) Why to ruin it when you gave so much money in it!?
another great video by The Biz doc. I actually respect how you put your politics aside for the videos even though you have obvious opinions about certain subjects. it's all about learning with the biz doc
We have viewers on all sides of the political universe. There’s no reason to insult anyone - And I appreciate every one of them that comes to watch. Thank you for noticing. Thanks - Tom
bad news for developers
Maybe or maybe not. Time will tell. Thanks - Tom
Developers developers developers developers!
I love GitHub, and Atom. It's essential for geeks. But, I enjoyed listening and learning about the business side. Thank you!!!!!
Quite possibly the worst explanation of what github is ever..
come on then Jelmer, what is it?
The video is good, content is solid. I would like to expect more about what the problems they encounter and how they solved the problems. Therefore, we can learn from it as an experience.
RIP GITHUB! Microsoft never does anything good for the companies that they buy. Everyone switch to Gitlab or Bitbucket. It's no longer going to be open source and that was the main reason behind it. Linux is supposed to be free as in freedom and YOU can have control and access to your software which companies like Apple and Microsoft doesn't allow. Things won't be the same.
hater ,you don't know anything about coding
shut up you want things to be free, have you won the clothes you av for free?have you owned the land you have for free?everything in life has a price, DEAL WITH IT and stop crying
Uh, no, you are completely incorrect. The whole nature of free software is, and get this, that it is completely free for anyone to use, modify and improve on. There are plenty of things in life that are free; libraries, education and healthcare in most countries, to name a few.
and also we shouldn't get used to free things because WOULD WE ALSO WANT EVERYTHING TO DO WORK FOR FREE?
@ramsy rama doesn't know coding? Says you who have no idea what free software is.
Man, Slacking.
Honestly I don't think I have much to say this go-around, but I'll give it a shot.
First-off good on em for bootstrapping and doing so much while also keeping such a massive chunk of their business. I will certainly be following as much of their blueprint as I can to have similar success. I especially love the idea of having a top-up option for my future investors. I imagine that must be a very attractive opportunity especially in companies where they expect such a high return (though I wonder how many people expected that kind of a payday.)
For the sake of advancement I truly hope Microsoft doesn't bury this project. It would be a shame to know that a service with so much potential got buried because 1) the executive team exited presumably for the money 2) Bill Gates wanted to snuff out the competition. Absorb them, but please, don't just kill it.
Culture is so very important and its clear companies like Uber and Github (even Chipotle for that matter have failed on that front). To be honest I'm still a bit weary having anything to do with Amazon as well. They now have three strikes in terms of being an honorable company. I of all people understand having a set of principles that seem rather fluid to outsiders, but I truly wonder where Jeff Bezos's line of integrity is. Different problem, but still possibly a problem of culture.
I think I've basically covered my thoughts on this video. Hope someone got some use out of today's response.
Also, added three new subscribers to your list today. I truly hope they keep up with your videos as a whole.
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Seems like a perfect example of why to not hire women
Great content. Lots of info, lots of good tips, etc. Thanks!
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Wow, I'm a developer and layman in business.
Your analysis and explanations were clear and spot on.
Thank you for the great video.
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Way to go Tom ! Excellent video.
We always need smooth integration tools/research. And this is Githubs nesh. Such vast volume of diversity of topics over 10 million users working on things. I can't wait to see 2020 and all the newest "Things." Later Guys🎩
I really like how you presented information so that even non developers are able to understand it. Well done!
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Loved this. Great case study!
Loved the soda analogy! Makes it so easy to understand!
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Love the case way to go guys! Not happy though MS is taking over GitHub
Many people agree with you about that. We are very happy that you enjoyed the analysis and found it useful. Thanks - Tom
Great case study Doc - the technology portion of many of your case studies is often times over my head (I pound nails for a living) but your examples of the business concepts and lessons learned always teach me many things. And, your presentation style is super enjoyable and digestible......especially when you put into non-techno-geek terms that I can understand like drinking my favorite ice cold beverage. Well done and thank you. Cheers to you from Wisconsin.
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This is awesome. It was like having ancient Greek characters explained, and I actually walk away knowing what was said
wow! Great video Tom!