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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: 2) by requerdanos on Sunday June 03 2018, @02:51PM (1 child)

    by requerdanos (5997) on Sunday June 03 2018, @02:51PM (#688035) Journal

    If your code is proprietary, letting someone else host it seems like a very bad idea.

    To present another point of view, this could merely be handled with licensing ("This Project Is Licensed Under The Terms Of The You-Have-No-Rights-Go-Away Public License, All And We Do Mean All Rights Reserved"), otherwise it's arguably simply security through obscurity.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 04 2018, @06:31AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 04 2018, @06:31AM (#688250)

    And how do you deal with infringement if you are a small company who doesn't want to hire lawyers? Are you going to leave $1000 cash on the street and say don't take it, it belongs to Mr. Naive?