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posted by chromas on Monday June 04 2018, @01:40PM   Printer-friendly
from the versionctlâ €-altâ €-del dept.

[Update 20180604 @ 14:00 UTC: Acquisition confirmed. Microsoft is paying $7.5 billion in stock. Coverage at Microsoft, Security Week, The Register, and The Verge. Also, see the Microsoft blog post. --martyb]

Microsoft has reportedly acquired GitHub

Microsoft has reportedly acquired GitHub, and could announce the deal as early as Monday. Bloomberg reports that the software giant has agreed to acquire GitHub, and that the company chose Microsoft partly because of CEO Satya Nadella. Business Insider first reported that Microsoft had been in talks with GitHub recently.

Time to move off GitHub?

Previously: Microsoft Holds Acquisition Talks with Github

An AC also submitted Bloomberg's article.


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  • (Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Monday June 04 2018, @02:10PM (5 children)

    by JoeMerchant (3937) on Monday June 04 2018, @02:10PM (#688355)

    Attempted to register for a GitLab account about 30 minutes ago, still haven't received the confirmation e-mail yet.

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  • (Score: 2) by takyon on Monday June 04 2018, @02:12PM (1 child)

    by takyon (881) <reversethis-{gro ... s} {ta} {noykat}> on Monday June 04 2018, @02:12PM (#688359) Journal

    Maybe... wait a day? Lol.

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    • (Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Monday June 04 2018, @02:41PM

      by JoeMerchant (3937) on Monday June 04 2018, @02:41PM (#688381)

      The confirmation e-mail arrived a few minutes later, and I've got the repo pushed to a new project on GitLab already... not a big deal at all, it seems.

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  • (Score: 2) by VLM on Monday June 04 2018, @02:15PM (2 children)

    by VLM (445) Subscriber Badge on Monday June 04 2018, @02:15PM (#688363)

    Reminds me of the day Google cancelled Google Reader and every alternative was swamped for a week. Still using NewsBlur, have an open tab right now...

    • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 04 2018, @11:11PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 04 2018, @11:11PM (#688629)

      Sadly when they destroyed DejaNews by embracing and extinguishing it there were no alternatives around, and now it's too late.

    • (Score: 2) by takyon on Tuesday June 05 2018, @04:00AM

      by takyon (881) <reversethis-{gro ... s} {ta} {noykat}> on Tuesday June 05 2018, @04:00AM (#688712) Journal

      I've settled on Claws Mail with the RSSyl plugin.

      But Live Bookmarks in Firefox works fine too. It's insane that Google Chrome displays an XML blob instead of a properly formatted list and "Subscribe Now" button like Firefox does. That should just be the default for .rss/.atom handling in browsers.

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