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posted by chromas on Monday June 04 2018, @01:40PM   Printer-friendly
from the versionctl⠀-alt⠀-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: 2) by JoeMerchant on Monday June 04 2018, @05:30PM (3 children)

    by JoeMerchant (3937) on Monday June 04 2018, @05:30PM (#688448)

    Wire’s source code is available on GitHub with a GPLv3 licence.
    A self-hosted server option will be available in 2018.

    A cynical person would say that Microsoft/Skype is looking to derail Wire's pending self-hosted server option before it goes live...

    It's not possible to use it without paying, yet - right? (other than the 30 day trial) With the self-hosted server and GPL license, that should change.

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  • (Score: 2) by requerdanos on Monday June 04 2018, @08:05PM (2 children)

    by requerdanos (5997) Subscriber Badge on Monday June 04 2018, @08:05PM (#688535) Journal

    It's not possible to use it without paying, yet - right?

    They are selling some "wire business service" very aggressively on their website, but "wire desktop" (the messenger) is both free/libre and free/gratis.

    Their https://wire.com/en/download/ [wire.com] page has the downloads for a Linux binary (as well as links to repositories for Debian and Ubuntu), and binaries for Android, Mac OSX, Windows, and iOS.

    Also usable in a browser at http://app.wire.com [wire.com]. At this link, if not signed in, you will see "For personal use" -- which is the free/libre/gratis thing that is like Skype -- or "For Organizations-Create A Team" which is the thing they are selling. Click "For personal use" to make a free account. I have found it to be a drop-in replacement for Skype on my Debian desktop and on my Android phone.

    Their source code is here: https://github.com/wireapp/wire [github.com].

    • (Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Monday June 04 2018, @09:22PM (1 child)

      by JoeMerchant (3937) on Monday June 04 2018, @09:22PM (#688579)

      So, I suppose that 2.5 years is too long to expect an OS to remain useful?

      ## Your distribution, identified as "wily", is not currently supported, please contact NodeSource at https://github.com/nodesource/distributions/issues [github.com] if you think this is incorrect or would like your distribution to be considered for support

      Node.js 8.x won't install on wily, and while 6.x installed, the wire client has some problem with React that it is pointing at Node.js being too old as a likely source...

      Have I ever mentioned what a royal PITA I have found Java and javascript to be over the past 20 years?

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      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 05 2018, @09:42PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 05 2018, @09:42PM (#689041)

        "Wily" has been officially EOL since July 28, 2016. You haven't received a single update, security or otherwise, since then. I would not be expecting much from your OS.