Microsoft's GitHub CEO Nat Friedman Is Stepping Down (cnbc.com) 21
Microsoft said Wednesday that Nat Friedman, CEO of the company's GitHub subsidiary that provides software for storing source code, is stepping down. Thomas Dohmke, GitHub's product chief will replace him. CNBC reports: "As Chief Product Officer, I'm proud of the work our teams have done to bring new capabilities to GitHub Codespaces, Issues, Copilot, and many of the 20,000 improvements that we shipped last year," Dohmke wrote in a blog post. "Together, we've built a roadmap that will transform the developer experience for open source maintainers and enterprises using GitHub for years to come." Dohmke takes over for Friedman on Nov. 15.
Friedman is "very excited to go back to my startup roots to support and invest in the builders who are creating the world of tomorrow," he wrote in a tweet. He will be an advisor to both GitHub and Microsoft, Scott Guthrie, executive vice president for Microsoft's cloud and artificial intelligence group, wrote in an email to employees. Dohmke first registered as a GitHub user in 2009, not long after its founding in 2008. He was co-founder and CEO of app-testing software start-up HockeyApp, which Microsoft acquired in 2014. He moved to GitHub at the time Microsoft closed the GitHub acquisition in 2018. Dohmke "led the GitHub acquisition process on the Microsoft engineering side from the deal signing to the successful acquisition close," Guthrie wrote in his email. Dohmke later led the acquisitions of Npm, a code-distribution start-up, and Semmle, a start-up whose software helps organizations analyze code to uncover security issues, Guthrie wrote.
Friedman is "very excited to go back to my startup roots to support and invest in the builders who are creating the world of tomorrow," he wrote in a tweet. He will be an advisor to both GitHub and Microsoft, Scott Guthrie, executive vice president for Microsoft's cloud and artificial intelligence group, wrote in an email to employees. Dohmke first registered as a GitHub user in 2009, not long after its founding in 2008. He was co-founder and CEO of app-testing software start-up HockeyApp, which Microsoft acquired in 2014. He moved to GitHub at the time Microsoft closed the GitHub acquisition in 2018. Dohmke "led the GitHub acquisition process on the Microsoft engineering side from the deal signing to the successful acquisition close," Guthrie wrote in his email. Dohmke later led the acquisitions of Npm, a code-distribution start-up, and Semmle, a start-up whose software helps organizations analyze code to uncover security issues, Guthrie wrote.
Translation... (Score:3, Insightful)
Translation: working at Microsoft is super shitty.
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Alternate translation: working at Microsoft is so shitty I'm out before my shares vested
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Alternate alternate translation: I was asked to spend more time with my family.
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Or he is getting orders so illegal that it's safer to leave before lawsuits occur.
Re:Translation... (Score:4, Insightful)
Translation, I'm so rich from working for Microsoft, I no longer have to work.
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*I no longer have to work for a shitty company
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Translation: working at Microsoft is super shitty.
It was especially shitty for him because his superiors told him that going forward, the GitHub backend will need to migrate to Visual Source Safe.
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Re:Github going strong (Score:5, Interesting)
ChromeOS is hardly the vision of those who want Linux on the desktop, it's just a thing to run a web browser on. It's still pretty hilarious how big of a share macOS has compared to Linux when Linux is free of charge, free of restriction and runs on far more hardware than macOS does, meanwhile macOS only runs on Apple's hardware which they drop support for every few years. Meanwhile Microsoft are falling over themselves to create a shittier version of Windows, they've run out of apendages to shoot themselves in.
You couldn't ask for more favourable environment to compete in but even with literally hundreds of Linux distributions they have collectively managed to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory time and time again. ...but this time it will be the year of the Linux desktop...at this rate it will arrive because Microsoft wills it to be, it will be Linux wrapped in Windows, what a monument to incompetence that will turn out to be if the best Linux is Windows.
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That's right...
I do all my "desktop" work on a laptop -- on a desk. Makes it easier when I need to move between workstations, which happens frequently. I have a power adapter and a USB hub ready with two external displays, mouse, and keyboard, and I just plug my laptop in at each workstation. If that laptop is running Linux, for me it counts as Linux on the desktop.
I don't take the "on the desktop" phrase too literally. I prefer to look for "Linux on the PC". If it's on a large, high end tower PC that sits
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GitLab seems to have been growing better than GitHub [gitlab.com] ever since and has a fully open source version. It's frankly just better in many ways. That hasn't destroyed GitHub in any way, but I'm sure having competition has helped keep them honest.
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Amirite?
If you thought you were right, you'd post with your pseudonym.
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They appear to have left its backend alone so far. Great. But how much longer will that last now that Nat Friedman is "stepping down." (And just what is "stepping down" a euphemism for here?) I can't speak for anyone else or for what the trends are. But I remember quite well when the house of gates sank its fangs into hotmail, migrated it to windows server; and the subsequent fiasco that ensued. It was nasty enough for a mere consumer webmail service that was mostly just for spam traps. But just you
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They appear to have left its backend alone so far. Great. But how much longer will that last now that Nat Friedman is "stepping down."
Why would it change? It's seen enormous growth in the couple of years that Microsoft has owned it and put their own people in charge of it, whatever they have been doing has been working great.
And just what is "stepping down" a euphemism for here?
Leaving his current job, people do it all the time.
But I remember quite well when the house of gates sank its fangs into hotmail, migrated it to windows server; and the subsequent fiasco that ensued.
Gates "stepped down" as CEO over a decade ago and the Hotmail experiment was 2 decades ago. These days they actively support Linux directly in Windows.
But just you wait until they pull the same stunt on Github.
Why would they use Windows Server for Github? They use Linux extensively across the company, including for hotmail.