GitHub No Longer Independent at Microsoft As CEO Steps Down

GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke announced Monday he will step down to pursue entrepreneurial endeavors, with Microsoft restructuring the subsidiary's leadership rather than appointing a direct replacement.

Microsoft developer division head Julia Liuson will oversee GitHub's revenue, engineering and support operations, while chief product officer Mario Rodriguez will report to Microsoft AI platform VP Asha Sharma.

ok bye

[real_nickname]

Sad to see github becoming an AI thing.

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[GoTeam]

Sad to see github becoming an AI thing.

Don't worry, Microsoft will get to the extinguish portion of "embrace, extend, and extinguish" for GitHub soon...

Re:ok bye

[nightflameauto]

Sad to see github becoming an AI thing.

Don't worry, Microsoft will get to the extinguish portion of "embrace, extend, and extinguish" for GitHub soon...

In this particular case, I'm not so sure. It's a sweet honeypot for developers right now, and gives Microsoft's AI a massive treasure-trove to train on. I doubt they want to rid themselves of that.

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[mysidia]

Really? Who are Github's competitors, and what proprietary thing has MS added to a common standard or open spec to eventually put competitors at a major disadvantage?

As far as I know MS has yet to come out with a proprietary extension of the Git client with Github-exclusive features.

Re:ok bye

[larwe]

Git is just a very complicated filesystem that nobody really understands and everybody uses memorized magic incantations to operate (fight me). Github is not just a git environment, it is a CI environment. Github Actions (which a MS rep told me is eventually going to obsolete Azure DevOps/Pipelines specifically) is the article of interest. Competitors are things like Jenkins and AWS CodePipeline.

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[93 Escort Wagon]

Well, it might help if one started with Pro Git [git-scm.com] versus XKCD [xkcd.com]....

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[larwe]

Even assuming that book contains everything one needs to know, "I just think it's funny that I didn't have to memorize a 501-page book to use SVN. Or SourceSafe, for that matter". XKCD is right, in the same way that everyone who doesn't like systemd is right, and for the same reasons.

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[real_nickname]

You don't need 500 pages. Know commit,push,fetch,checkout, branch, merge and rebase, you are done. No need to be a genius. svn merge was hell that's why nobody use it anymore. Yes you need to make a mental shift when going from svn-like to git but new dev have not this problem.

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[Tony Isaac]

So how's that different from anybody else? They're *all* becoming "AI things."

A propriatary software company

[Anonymous Coward]

Who doesn't release their source code should haven't been able to acquire Github. This was such a mistake but there was no push-back against this, what-so-ever.

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[Valgrus Thunderaxe]

Push back by whom? GH is a private company. You or anyone else not part of the management have no say in the matter.

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[mysidia]

It should have been prevented on antitrust grounds, since Microsoft essentially subsumed a competitor to Visual Studio teams. There is now less competition in the marketplace.

Also, when it comes to marketplace regulation.. being a private company is irrelevent; the acquisition of a significant competitor in order to expand a monopoly is still blocked by the law; at least in theory.

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[Luthair]

What? Githubs source code was never public, so why should it be relevant for their buyer to have that restriction. Github in the early days also contributed a fair amount to git as I recall, and to be frank without Github I'm not sure that git would have ever been meaningfully successful in the broader market.

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[Tony Isaac]

Microsoft has made public significant swaths of his source code. Visual Studio and .NET Core, to name two.

Good riddance

[megamind]

GitHub support has gotten worse. They removed all of my websites and web presence for a week with zero explanation.

Please, MS, don't kill GitHub...

[ctilsie242]

I really hope MS doesn't kill GitHub now that the CEO is gone. I have had nothing but the best luck with their support, when a bug on their end caused problems... they had an efix in hours, it was in the beta in a few days, and in two weeks, it was in the release cycle. For a product that is the critical core of many companies, I hope support doesn't get worse.

Re:Please, MS, don't kill GitHub...

[larwe]

Multiple MS people have told me explicitly that they are focusing on Github to the exclusion of equivalent functionality in Azure, to the point that AZDO is going to be deprecated at some point in the future. That's why they bought GH.

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[deKernel]

I would not be surprised if eventually Azure DevOps goes away. Not that long ago, I thought Azure DevOps had a better issue tracking setup, but it looks like MS has updated the GitHub experience to more closely match Azure DevOps. I do prefer the GitHub approach to release management so finger's crossed they don't wack GitHub in favor of Azure DevOps.

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[WarlockD]

Might of been the whole reason they bought Github initially. Use the brand to move people over to DevOps but who wants to move everything over to a poof when Microsoft wills it. The second the shoved Copilot in there I knew DevOps days were numbered:P

Move repositories

[Schoenlepel]

If you have a problem with github, simply pack up your things and move elsewhere. Git is decentralized, you know.

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[drinkypoo]

I have a problem with Microsoft, so I packed up my things and moved elsewhere when Microsoft bought it.

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[fph il quozientatore]

Microsoft has already "extended" git with CI actions that are trickier to migrate.

Bitbucket

[ZipNada]

I started using Bitbucket long ago when github wouldn't let me have private repositories without paying them money. That's changed now but I see no reason to go back.