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[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
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Microsoft Agrees to Acquire GitHub... for $7.5 Billion [Updated]
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(Score: 5, Informative) by riT-k0MA on Monday June 04 2018, @01:43PM (15 children)
Gitlab is really struggling... to keep up with demand, as many developers abandon Github:
https://twitter.com/gitlab/status/1003409836170547200 [twitter.com]
(Score: 3, Interesting) by BsAtHome on Monday June 04 2018, @01:58PM (2 children)
I noticed... moving now
(Score: 5, Informative) by riT-k0MA on Monday June 04 2018, @02:31PM (1 child)
I forgot to mention:
Gitlab is hosted by Azure. For now. They'll be moving to Google Cloud "soon".
(Score: 4, Insightful) by SanityCheck on Monday June 04 2018, @08:05PM
Shit soup either way.
(Score: 5, Funny) by SomeGuy on Monday June 04 2018, @02:07PM
Now, only if Microsoft would buy Twitter. :P
(Score: 2) by takyon on Monday June 04 2018, @02:08PM (3 children)
Github is 6 letters and the last one is a 'b'. Gitlab is 6 letters and the last one is a 'b'. Is it time for Microsoft to sue Gitlab yet?
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(Score: 3, Interesting) by BsAtHome on Monday June 04 2018, @02:31PM (1 child)
The US and EU regulatory system must say "OK" before the acquisition is final. It is expected to go through by the end of the year. That is when they will be able to perform an "extinguish" round and kill the competition. So far, only "embrace" (use it) and "extend" (buy your way in) have been on the agenda. The final step comes in due time.
(Score: 2, Funny) by realDonaldTrump on Monday June 04 2018, @04:42PM
Microsoft, if you're listening, fax the papers to my staff at 202-456-2461 and I'll sign them right away. With the most beautiful signature you've seen in your entire life. I am sitting in the Oval Office with a pen in hand. Waiting!!!
(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Monday June 04 2018, @05:26PM
hu la ... hu la ... hu la
Sounds like it needs to be tried in a Hawaiian court.
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(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Monday June 04 2018, @02:10PM (5 children)
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)
Maybe... wait a day? Lol.
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(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Monday June 04 2018, @02:41PM
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)
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
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
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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(Score: 3, Interesting) by goodie on Monday June 04 2018, @03:45PM
They already struggle on a regular basis, what's it going to be... Hopefully that can help them scale things up and get organized to be a real sensible alternative that offers much more than github.
sidenote: for those doing research where we use githubarchive.org, the github api etc. to study the software development ecosystem in OSS and other projects, this is a bit of a scary moment. GH has so far proven to be a great, reliable source of current data that was pretty open (their graph api is nowhere functional yet but at least there's the old api available). With this purchase, I don't know how long I will still have access to that data, especially since githubarchive posts the data on... BigQuery :D