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Microsoft Agrees to Acquire GitHub... for $7.5 Billion [Updated]

posted by chromas on Monday June 04 2018, @01:40PM   Printer-friendly
from the versionctlâ €-altâ €-del dept.

takyon writes:

[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 bobthecimmerian on Monday June 04 2018, @08:20PM (2 children)

    by bobthecimmerian (6834) on Monday June 04 2018, @08:20PM (#688545)

    Actually, this is great news. I was really annoyed that git, this grand decentralized revision control system, was in practice being used almost entirely on one big centralized service.

    So then my heroes from Microsoft are fixing the problem for me. You can bet Github is going to start sucking, and the decentralization will happen as a consequence. Hooray Microsoft! Maybe someone at the top has decided they like the FSF and this is their guerrilla tactic to help out.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 05 2018, @08:48AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 05 2018, @08:48AM (#688778)

    I was really annoyed that git, this grand decentralized revision control system, was in practice being used almost entirely on one big centralized service.

    Git != Github. Github is a service using Git. Kind of like water is great, but bottled water is big business.

    • (Score: 2) by bobthecimmerian on Tuesday June 05 2018, @02:53PM

      by bobthecimmerian (6834) on Tuesday June 05 2018, @02:53PM (#688876)

      I know git != Github. My point is that git source code hosting by the very nature of git should be spread across dozens of providers. There just shouldn't be One Revision Control Hosting Site To Rule Them All. There should be competition in the space. Also, there are a number of free-as-in-freedom source code hosting platforms out there that never got much attention because everybody is on Github. It's another form of the same problem that keeps Facebook and Twitter so popular. "I don't care how nice Mastodon/Friendica/Status.net/Diaspora/Fritter/whatever is, all my friends and family are already on Facebook!"

      If Github starts to be mediocre, then it will cease to be the king of project hosting. Project owners will be more likely to host code on competing services, including fully free ones. The attitude "Either it's on Github or it doesn't matter" will die.