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Ljink96 on 04 June 2018
vivster said:
Well, if anyone needs it, it's Microsoft. Must be a nice change for their developers to look at good code for once.

The savagery! 



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Aura7541 on 04 June 2018
Snoopy said:
Chazore said:

Getting on with age doesn't automtically say that he's going to sell  the entire company to MS.

He doesn't agree with MS at all, so I doubt he'd even sell to them at all. 

He loves money.

And Steam earns Valve a lot of money. Your point is moot.



Azzanation on 04 June 2018
Aura7541 said:
Snoopy said:

He loves money.

And Steam earns Valve a lot of money. Your point is moot.

Nothing can compare to a big lump sum of money before retiring.. look at Minecraft.

My opinion it doesnt bother me if MS buy Steam or not, i enjoy both there services alot.

As for the OP, i wonder why MS wanted to buy Github?



Chazore on 04 June 2018
Snoopy said:

He loves money.

So does everyone on this planet. Doesn't automatically mean everyone will be a sellout. 



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Snoopy on 04 June 2018
Chazore said:
Snoopy said:

He loves money.

So does everyone on this planet. Doesn't automatically mean everyone will be a sellout. 

Not selling out when he is closer to death. He still has his dignity.



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Chazore on 05 June 2018
Snoopy said:
Chazore said:

So does everyone on this planet. Doesn't automatically mean everyone will be a sellout. 

Not selling out when he is closer to death. He still has his dignity.

None of that makes any sense....



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Pemalite on 05 June 2018
Azzanation said:

i wonder why MS wanted to buy Github?

Possibly service integration, which helps make their other platforms seem more attractive. (Bing, Outlook and so on.)



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OdinHades on 05 June 2018
Snoopy said:
Chazore said:

Getting on with age doesn't automtically say that he's going to sell  the entire company to MS.

He doesn't agree with MS at all, so I doubt he'd even sell to them at all. 

He loves money.

According to Forbes, Gabe Newell's net worth is about 5.5 billion $. That guy doesn't care about money anymore. He can't spend all of his dough in his lifetime anyway. It makes zero difference if he has 5.5 billion in the bank or 11 billion or 20 billion or whatever. There's nothing Microsoft has to offer to him. Plus he hates Microsoft. He literally quit his job there back in the days to start Valve, because he wasn't happy with the company. There's no way in hell Gabe Newell would ever sell Valve to Microsoft. Absolutely zero chances at all. 

Minecraft was different as Notch wasn't a billionaire before. For him it was a very tempting deal and I won't judge him for not turning it down (well, maybe a little =P). Maybe Microsoft can buy Valve once Gabe Newell drops out of the company. But I don't see that happening in the next 20 years. If Valve continues to grow until then, Microsoft couldn't afford Valve by then anyway.

There's of course the slight possibility that Valve goes public which would allow Microsoft a hostile takeover in theory. But I really don't see any reason why Valve would do that. They don't need any more money. Their business model consists of high income and very low expenses. No point in raising cash by going public.

Yeah, so all in all, Valve won't get bought by anyone anytime soon.



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Snoopy on 05 June 2018
OdinHades said:
Snoopy said:

He loves money.

According to Forbes, Gabe Newell's net worth is about 5.5 billion $. That guy doesn't care about money anymore. He can't spend all of his dough in his lifetime anyway. It makes zero difference if he has 5.5 billion in the bank or 11 billion or 20 billion or whatever. There's nothing Microsoft has to offer to him. Plus he hates Microsoft. He literally quit his job there back in the days to start Valve, because he wasn't happy with the company. There's no way in hell Gabe Newell would ever sell Valve to Microsoft. Absolutely zero chances at all. 

Minecraft was different as Notch wasn't a billionaire before. For him it was a very tempting deal and I won't judge him for not turning it down (well, maybe a little =P). Maybe Microsoft can buy Valve once Gabe Newell drops out of the company. But I don't see that happening in the next 20 years. If Valve continues to grow until then, Microsoft couldn't afford Valve by then anyway.

There's of course the slight possibility that Valve goes public which would allow Microsoft a hostile takeover in theory. But I really don't see any reason why Valve would do that. They don't need any more money. Their business model consists of high income and very low expenses. No point in raising cash by going public.

Yeah, so all in all, Valve won't get bought by anyone anytime soon.

Gabe loves money tho.



fauzman on 05 June 2018

Well, good I guess? Had toook up what github. So long as they deal with it fairly i have no problem with it and to their credit since Satya took over they have done that,



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