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Microsoft Holds Acquisition Talks with Github

posted by janrinok on Saturday June 02 2018, @02:14PM   Printer-friendly
from the good-business-or-something-else dept.

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https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2018/06/01/microsoft--github-acquisition-talks-resume.html

Microsoft held talks in the past few weeks to acquire software developer platform GitHub, Business Insider reports.

One person familiar with the discussions between the companies told CNBC that they had been considering a joint marketing partnership valued around $35 million, and that those discussions had progressed to a possible investment or outright acquisition. It is unclear whether talks are still ongoing, but this person said that GitHub's price for a full acquisition was more than Microsoft currently wanted to pay.

GitHub was last valued at $2 billion in its last funding round 2015, but the price tag for an acquisition could be $5 billion or more, based on a price that was floated last year.

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  • (Score: 0, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 02 2018, @03:31PM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 02 2018, @03:31PM (#687710)

    The only way this could work out OK is if Microsoft just buys them for physical and intellectual property.

    If the people are kept, some of them may be able to work their way up into the rest of Microsoft. Many of the people who founded github were great, but mostly they are gone now. The company is coasting along, now run by a bunch of toxic SJWs who refuse to focus on the business.

    This, BTW, is why gitlab is pulling ahead.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 02 2018, @07:55PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 02 2018, @07:55PM (#687797)

    > The only way this could work out OK is if Microsoft just buys them for physical and intellectual property.

    Expect a "burning platform" speech 2 hours after the acquisition.
    I never shook off the fishy sensation with github, caused by their wanting to become the single point of failure of free software projects. Start cloning to your HD, guys.

    • (Score: 2) by opinionated_science on Saturday June 02 2018, @08:38PM

      by opinionated_science (4031) on Saturday June 02 2018, @08:38PM (#687804)

      that's why as much flack as GIT get's we all use it. Github is (was) for sharing, but git works just fine when LDAP/SSH/VPN etc...

      And anyway, SOURCEFORGE and their clicky-insert malware tendencies will be followed by Micro$oft.

      They have form. When they (M$) bought Nokia , and foisted their Crapware M$ tools onto my N8 with NO way of removing.

      This will not end well....