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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.
(Score: 2) by Pino P on Sunday June 03 2018, @11:53AM (2 children)
"Passable" means "I know enough to be dangerous." University and high school computer science programs teach programming, not the technical or legal aspects of administration of a public-facing Internet server. Thus an armchair sysadmin is likely to miss some major detail of security or compliance, such as how to make notifications from Bugzilla go to the contributor's inbox rather than be rejected as spam, or when a project based outside the European Union that accepts a patch from a contributor in the Union is required to hire a representative in the Union pursuant to article 27 of the General Data Privacy Regulation (GDPR) because it is now the "data controller" of "personal data" of a "data subject" in the Union.
Provided the application is in a class of applications that have direct benefit to sysadmins. A library useful on Python or Node servers might. So might a text editor extension. But a completely client-side application that isn't used in the process of running a server, such as a video game, might not. Or what am I missing?
How long will they remain so, particularly for access by users behind networks with no IPv6 connectivity, as the supply of scarce IPv4 addresses grows tighter?
The situation I was in for several years involved being between institutions, such as having graduated from university and looking for a place to host a portfolio where prospective employers can see.
(Score: 1) by babywombat on Sunday June 03 2018, @06:13PM (1 child)
... or when a project based outside the European Union that accepts a patch from a contributor in the Union is required to hire a representative in the Union pursuant to article 27 of the General Data Privacy Regulation (GDPR)
That's just spreading some FUD. The same article 27 which you are quoting also says this obligation does not apply if the processing of personal data is not large-scale and is "unlikely to result in a risk to the rights and freedoms of natural persons". It might be that storing a git user name in the repo history can be considered as "processing of personal data" in some stretched way, but surely it is not large-scale and surely it it is not likely to risk any rights or freedoms.
(Score: 2) by Pino P on Monday June 04 2018, @12:24AM
True. But in practice, I'll believe it once a judge sets forth a test for what's "large-scale" and what's "occasional".