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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: 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