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Microsoft Agrees to Acquire GitHub... for $7.5 Billion [Updated]

posted by chromas on Monday June 04 2018, @01:40PM   
from the versionctl⠀-alt⠀-del dept.

takyon writes:

[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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• Re:Alternatives? (Score: 3, Insightful) by FatPhil on Monday June 04 2018, @03:07PM

  by FatPhil (863) <reversethis-{if.fdsa} {ta} {tnelyos-cp}> on Monday June 04 2018, @03:07PM (#688395) Homepage

  If all you want is world read access, then you can trivially just host git yourself, it comes with a server already. Write access is unnecessary - contributors don't need push access, because they can equally easily host their own repos (redundancy - that's a good thing), and issue pull requests.

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