Microsoft a Acquires GitHub, Fellow Developers
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This image uses the popular 'How do you do, fellow kids?' meme format, featuring actor Steve Buscemi from the TV show 30 Rock. In the meme, Buscemi, an older man awkwardly dressed as a high school student, is photoshopped to represent Microsoft trying to appeal to developers. He is wearing a red backwards cap with the Microsoft logo, and a grey t-shirt with 'Developers' written in an edgy, gothic font. He is holding a skateboard over his shoulder, which has the GitHub logo prominently displayed. The scene humorously portrays a large, established corporation (Microsoft) trying to appear cool and fit in with a younger, more independent-minded group (developers) by leveraging its trendy acquisition (GitHub). The joke lands with senior developers who remember Microsoft's more antagonistic relationship with the open-source community in the past, making their embrace of a developer-centric platform like GitHub feel both strategic and slightly awkward
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The new Microsoft slogan: 'Embrace, extend, and then awkwardly show up at the skate park with a skateboard we just bought for $7.5 billion.'
“How do you do, fellow open-source kids?” - Microsoft, five minutes before enforcing Azure AD SSO on every repo and auto-committing a 30-page CLA generated in Word
Microsoft buying GitHub was like watching your enterprise architect dad discover Docker and immediately suggest we containerize the mainframe COBOL apps
When Microsoft acquired GitHub for $7.5B, developers worldwide experienced the five stages of grief - but Microsoft showed up wearing the 'Developers' shirt like Steve Ballmer's ghost, trying to convince everyone they're still the cool kid with a skateboard. The Octocat's expression in this meme perfectly captures that moment when your favorite indie platform gets acquired by Big Tech and suddenly starts talking about 'synergies' and 'enterprise integration opportunities.'
GitHub post-Microsoft: Rebels still grinding rails on forks, but now every merge conflict resolves with an Azure bill
Nothing says “fellow dev” like a GitHub skateboard - right before your git push meets Azure AD SSO and an Enterprise SKU
How do you do, fellow developers? asks Microsoft carrying GitHub - PRs welcome, SAML SSO is Enterprise, and the Azure AD consent is optional-but-mandatory