Microsoft To Buy GitHub

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And that title could also read, Microsoft already purchased it, as that is what some insides report. Microsoft has recently held talks to buy GitHub. The companies have had on-and-off conversations over the years, but talks have grown more serious in the past few weeks.

It's a change of course from just six months ago, when GitHub, last valued at $2 billion in 2015, appeared fully committed to staying independent and pursuing an initial public offering. Since then, GitHub has struggled to land a CEO to replace Chris Wanstrath, who announced his resignation in August but remains in the top role. The Google executive Sridhar Ramaswamy was at one point under consideration for the GitHub CEO job, a source told Business Insider.

GitHub is one of the most essential tools used by software developers today, so Microsoft would be rolling up a crucial part of the ecosystem. From the smallest startups to giants like Microsoft, companies use the cloud-based service to work on code collaboratively. GitHub has “27 million software developers working on 80 million repositories of code,” according to Bloomberg. Microsoft is the top contributor to the site, and has more than 1,000 employees actively pushing code to repositories on GitHub.

Update: It has been confirmed. Microsoft announced it will buy or has bought GitHub for 7.5 billion dollars. The Redmond company says in its announcement that GitHub will continue to operate independently. GitHub writes in its own announcement.
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http://www.guru3d.com/news_story/microsoft_might_been_buying_github.html
 
Coming soon!

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In looking forward to the three hour forced update just as you're about to check in your code.
 
Hades said:
In looking forward to the three hour forced update just as you're about to check in your code.
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I saw a slightly amusing one on Facebook yesterday - friend of mine's church PC (not quite sure but I think they use it for projecting hymns onto the wall and interfacing with an electric organ, etc.) launched into the 1803 update when they booted it up to use at the start of the service - even God can't block MS updates.

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Rroff said:
I saw a slightly amusing one on Facebook yesterday - friend of mine's church PC (not quite sure but I think they use it for projecting hymns onto the wall and interfacing with an electric organ, etc.) launched into the 1803 update when they booted it up to use at the start of the service - even God can't block MS updates.

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In God We Trust, everything else we block?
 
Risky move. If they mess it up and try to force people down a path then...ah actually, they have so much money who cares probably.
 
AHarvey said:
All the Linux fanboi's are having a meltdown about the evil Microsux and their purchase of Github so are moving to Gitlab, which is hosted on Azure and I doubt many of those complaining actually write code in the first place.
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I've been using Gitlab for a short while (disclaimer: I am not a professional programmer) but the CI/CD features are pretty impressive and you get them all for free as well as unlimited private repositories which you have to pay for on Github. Honestly, I moved before the whole Microsoft thing, but I'm pretty happy with Gitlab so far.
 
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