GitHub CEO forks off: Nat Friedman to quit this month, replacement will report to exec behind .NET Hot Reload fiasco

GitHub CEO Nat Friedman announced today he's leaving the organization on November 15 and will be replaced by chief product officer Thomas Dohmke. We're assured that GitHub will remain an independent outfit within Microsoft. That said, Dohmke will report to Julia Liuson, who was just made president of Microsoft’s developer …

[cyberdemon]

Now, welcome to the 'Extinguish' phase of the Microsoft takeover.

And before anyone else leaves, may we remind you that we own LinkedIn too.

Microsoft: We love open source! (like a wolf loves lamb) thanks for all the code you all contributed to our arctic vault and our "Open"AI code generator.

[Will Godfrey]

Not forgetting

There is still sourceforge, which after it's 'issues' a few years ago is now performing pretty reliably, and has a much better bug reporting system. Our code is kept in sync with it and github.

Eggs, baskets!

[cyberdemon]

Re: Not forgetting

There's also GitLab. I find it to be much better than GitHub, especially for agile workflows.

I lost my trust in sourceforge back when they tried to embed advertising crapware in installer packages.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SourceForge#DevShare_adware

[fandom]

Re: Not forgetting

Not really worth remembering something that happened before the current owners bought it.

[nijam]

> ... instrumental in Microsoft's adoption of open source...

We'd better notify the OED of this new meaning for "instrumental".

[Yet Another Anonymous coward]

instrumental - the bit where you're being played

[Lars]

While I started with Red Hat version something, Helix code was the first that really had me.

Anybody out there remembering those years too.

[DomDF]

Rats and sinking ships.

I said i would abandon GitHub back when Microsoft gobbled them up. I cleverly omitted tp say *when* i would abandon ship. Now seems like the right time.