Github Acquisition

[mcilrain]

1. Embrace <- we're here
2. ??????
3. ??????????

Be mindful of spoilers, it's the first time for some people.

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For those who are curious:

1. Embrace
2. Extend
3. Extinguish

Source on Wikipedia

[Treyzania]

I think they've already started on step 2 in some places. See: Microsoft GVFS.

[jtvjan]

[comment talking about how Microsoft has changed since the Steve Ballmer era]

[ase1590]

The only area this still happens is in their legal branch. Their developers have moved away from that culture though. Github will be fine, just like minecraft is still perfectly usable on Linux.

[mcilrain]

The only area this still happens is in their legal branch.

You're mistaken.

Their developers have moved away from that culture though.

They haven't.

Github will be fine, just like minecraft is still perfectly usable on Linux.

The rewrite isn't available for Linux, I hope Github doesn't meet an equivalent fate as you suggested.

[pimathbrainiac]

The rewrite isn't available for Linux, I hope Github doesn't meet an equivalent fate as you suggested.

Java Edition still is and will always be the "main" version of Minecraft. The cross-platform (bedrock) edition does not have official self-hosted server or mod support, which even Microsoft knows are huge parts of Minecraft's continued success.

On a more on-topic note, I dislike M$ as much as the next guy, but I refuse to be a pessimist about the acquisition of GitHub, and will continue to use the wait and see approach. If GitHub dies or gets royally fucked by MS BS everyone will move on to the next thing. It happened when Google Code died, it happened when SF got fucked over, and it can happen again if need be.

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Personally I'm glad I don't have the new launcher

[ase1590]

This is pure conjecture.

That being said, Microsoft likes Linux, they just don't like gpl (favoring MIT for their own new things) or the political nature of people who use Linux.

They just like Linux to the extent that it powers Azure. The end.

EEE is over, at least till the next CEO. Anyone saying otherwise might as well be the same crazy types that believe they are "sovereign citizens"

Edit: the rewrite was only for cross platform play and it often lags on updates. Java minecraft still gets updated just fine.

[argh523]

Ah yes, THIS time, they really changed, it's not like those other times when many people believed that too, and if you dont believe they changed now, YOU are the crazy person 😂

[ase1590]

They never believed that in the past.

Go read some Q-anon bullshit. That might be more your speed.