Yes, Google was part of the negotiations to purchase GitHub, but there wasn't full commitment for the alphabet CEO.
Because Sundar is a substitute teacher who is baby sitting Alphabet while the adults are away.
Defunkt makes it sound like it was a choice and they were a steward ... bs. If Google had a better offer, it would have been done.
Google not buying GH was a horribly foolish mistake. Mistake is the wrong word. Blunder? It has zero to do with the tech and everything to do with access to developers. I know how it played out, the Google folks were like, this is just hosted git, we could build that in a year if we wanted to. Completely ignoring that something like 20% of developers have an account there.
Almost nothing is a technology play, at acquisition time you are selling markets and audiences. I am amazed that GH hasn't capitalized more on the conveyor belt between GH and Azure.
Exactly! Total BS!
There are however some things that would motivate many founders to turn down their(Google) offers.
- Biggest issue with Google Acquisitions. They want the business and not the tech. They want to rewrite the tech riding their high horse. - They often wont offer full time roles to employees of acquired companies and would keep them on contract positions pending "interview" for full time.
I say this purely anecdotally, though, so take it as such. It has been a point of considerable personal frustration in the past. One instance was particularly painful because we had engaged the particular company looking for several custom features, and were basically buying a sizable percentage of the product they sold, with the promise that they would work with us implementing those features. When google bought them out, not only did the ability to get features implmented vanish, but so did the ones in flight.
And a healthy dose of ex-post rationalization when you happened to be right.
They should have given CI/CD away, every commit a build and test run, just like Google internal. Start layering extra services, at zero cost.
It would have been half a percent of load compared to actual workloads running on GCP.