For the past few days rumors has been circulating that Microsoft has been in discussion to acquire GitHub.
Microsoft just announced in a blog post that GitHub will be acquired for $7.5 billion in Microsoft stock, and the purchase is expected to close by the end of 2018.
Git Hub is one of the most popular sites for hosting repositories of code. Google moved most of its projects to GitHub after Google Code shut down, and countless open-source Android applications and libraries live on the site as well.
GitHub has been an independent company for its entire 10-years of operation, but things have changed now and developers are not happy. Some developers are accusing Microsoft of stealing codes.
Developers have started looking for alternative options for hosting their projects. GitLab, an open-source alternative to Git Hub is reporting 10x the normal daily amount of created repositories.
We’re seeing 10x the normal daily amount of repositories #movingtogitlab https://t.co/7AWH7BmMvM We’re scaling our fleet to try to stay up. Follow the progress on https://t.co/hN0ce379SC and @movingtogitlab
— GitLab (@gitlab) June 3, 2018
Microsoft said in a blog post that Developers are the builders of this new era, writing the world’s code. And GitHub is their home.
“We will empower developers at every stage of the development lifecycle – from ideation to collaboration to deployment to the cloud. Going forward, GitHub will remain an open platform, which any developer can plug into and extend
Hope the acquisition bodes well for Microsoft because I was beginning to wonder if they are about to go into oblivion like Nokia, yahoo and other big companies that refuse to innovate.
Which one is Github again ooo
Github is for developers
It’s like this movie, the guru was given a room to write his codes and bring his ideas to really, while the bad guy is spying and copying the code through a hidden camera…
What will happen to open source?
This is really like a movie. Microsoft just don’t want to die even though windows phone is almost closer to the grave.
Good for them..
I wish them good luck
hope Microsoft won’t make github extinct
Not that i have heard for Github before but good for them…i think
What will this collabo brings on table to Microsoft??
I don’t even know the github
Good for them
Something to bring microsoft out again
At least they can expand… good one
They accused Microsoft of stealing codes so Microsoft decided to buy it. Good
Microsoft please leave us alone cos everything you buy goes to extinction
Havent had of Github before oh.
But it’s good sha.
I stumble on this deal on twitter, it’s one of such deal that makes the big boys stays relevant in the tech space.
I wish them all the best and good luck
nice move