[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.
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Monday June 04 2018, @07:35PM (2 children)
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.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 3, Insightful) by requerdanos on Monday June 04 2018, @08:20PM (1 child)
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
Good point.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford