[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 bobthecimmerian on Tuesday June 05 2018, @02:53PM
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.