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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: 5, Informative) by requerdanos on Monday June 04 2018, @03:05PM (5 children)

    by requerdanos (5997) Subscriber Badge on Monday June 04 2018, @03:05PM (#688393) Journal

    Welcome to Microsoft GitHub!

    Access to GitHub is FREE. All you need to do is agree to our new, improved terms of service and log in with your Microsoft account.

    Github System requirements:
    Windows 10
    Github Client For Windows 10 (from the Windows Store)*

    *For limited access to only basic features, the legacy git client may be used until July 31, 2018. You should use the official native Github Client for Windows 10 for access to extended features and a fully supported customer experience. Thank you for helping Microsoft to embrace Github technology.

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    This post is satire. Microsoft has not done this. It's still might-or-might-not.

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  • (Score: 2) by c0lo on Monday June 04 2018, @07:35PM (2 children)

    by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Monday June 04 2018, @07:35PM (#688524) Journal

    Not gonna work like that, unless Microsoft comes with a clean-room implementation of a bit client that does not use any of the original code base. Because GPL.

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    • (Score: 3, Insightful) by requerdanos on Monday June 04 2018, @08:20PM (1 child)

      by requerdanos (5997) Subscriber Badge on Monday June 04 2018, @08:20PM (#688546) Journal

      Not...unless Microsoft comes with a clean-room implementation...that does not use any of the original code... Because GPL.

      They could write a nonfree but gratis wrapper that does the network connections, and produce a GPL fork of git that expects the wrapper. I am not encouraging this, nor do I believe it likely. But perfectly possible.

      • (Score: 2) by c0lo on Monday June 04 2018, @08:39PM

        by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Monday June 04 2018, @08:39PM (#688557) Journal

        Good point.

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  • (Score: 2) by Gaaark on Monday June 04 2018, @11:16PM (1 child)

    by Gaaark (41) on Monday June 04 2018, @11:16PM (#688633) Journal

    Welcome to Microsoft GitHub, which we are renaming as Microsoft StupidGit!

    We were thinking on "GithubGoesTheWayOfNokiaAndSkype", but were worried our lawyers would try to sue us for copyright infringement, so yeah, StupidGit suited us best.

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    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 05 2018, @02:09PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 05 2018, @02:09PM (#688857)

      GitSuck?