After supposed claims that Microsoft was looking into acquiring GitHub, it has now been officially confirmed. In a few months, Microsoft will own GitHub, a major purveyor of open source code. With the prior success of other acquisitions like Minecraft and LinkedIn, GitHub staff claims they feel confident with Microsoft's leadership.

According to the announcement blog post by the site, innovations will be made with Microsoft's help, though the focus on providing open software will always remain. A new CEO, Nat Friedman, has been appointed as well, while the previous CEO and co-founder of GitHub will be now working directly at Microsoft.

Of course, this announcement and the rumors leading up to it has caused controversy. Microsoft hasn't always handled its acquisitions well, with many pointing to Skype as evidence of this. GitLab, a competitor to GitHub, has also seen massive registration numbers in the past two days.

The total transaction cost Microsoft 7.5 billion dollars.

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[VitaType]

i still fail to see the reason behind all the doom & gloom calling, i have yet to find a company that microsoft singlehandedly killed

True, but did it Wunderlist, Nokia, Rare, Hotmail, LinkedIn, Lionhead, Minecraft or Skype any favour to be bought by MS?

 

[filfat]

Rest in Git, you will be missed.

One has to wonder: Was it worth it for Micro$oft?

Hoho ho windows more like "win$hit" am i rite my dudes?

Yes, cause MSFT would invest 7.5 billion in Github to destroy it. They've done nothing but improve Linkedin since they've acquired it.
MSFT have one of the (if not the) largest open source project on github, vscode.


Basically most peoples argument boils down to "hur dur capitalism is bad".

 

[WiiUBricker]

Oh no, a large evil corporation took over a source sharing platform and will ruin it, boo hoo.

 

[Deleted User]

True, but did it Wunderlist, Nokia, Rare, Hotmail, LinkedIn, Lionhead, Minecraft, Skype any favour to be bought by MS?

mojang literally had no effect from them,
nokia did go under but they are definitely recovering,
never heard of wunderlist,
didn't know anything happened with hotmail, i thought they were always a microsoft service
wasn't linkedin doomed from the start?
skype was trash to begin with in complete retrospective
EDIT: fable was lionhead's downfall, i don't think it was microsoft's fault

 

[shaunj66]

Good for Microsoft but even better for GitHub - that's a lot of money!

M$ offer for GBAtemp, when?

 

[comput3rus3r]

Doesn't this technically mean that MS owns all of this opensource software and it can make it closed source whenever they feel like it?

 

[NightStorm1000]

70% of the Github userbase be like:

 

[RustInPeace]

LeBron is so memeworthy now.

 

[Localhorst86]

they're not dead, are they. compare rareware to visceral, origin, maxis, criterion

like seriously, microsoft isn't as bad as everyone's crying about

Skype and Nokia are the ones that really come to mind.

 

[Kolyasisan]

Well, I mean, why is it bad? Just because Microsoft supposedly ruined the other stuff that they bought?
Github is a major service used by lots of developers, I highly doubt that it will die easily.

 

[NightStorm1000]

Well, I mean, why is it bad? Just because Microsoft supposedly ruined the other stuff that they bought?
Github is a major service used by lots of developers, I highly doubt that it will die easily.

They will Integrate it to death. Belive me. They love to do this.

 

[bodefuceta]

Well, I mean, why is it bad? Just because Microsoft supposedly ruined the other stuff that they bought?
Github is a major service used by lots of developers, I highly doubt that it will die easily.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguish
Git is an open standard and Microsoft will likely add proprietary elements to it, making it incompatible to the already existing, working and needed alternatives. So they can introduce yet another monopoly, this time on a very serious matter that the whole world depends on, software version control. It's their declared goal. Combine with them saying stuff like "Linux is cancer", and things really could get ugly. Maybe this Reddit ELI5 will help you understand.

 

[NightStorm1000]

There are two Satans to the Open Source Community. Nvidia and Microsoft.

 

[DrayanoX]

Yeah they didn't waste 7.5 billion just to destroy Github.

 

[osaka35]

Moving to GitLab, check. It'll be interesting to see how microsoft responds to the fleeing masses.

 

[Deleted member 420418]

Noooooo! Not GitHub!

 

[Deleted User]

There are two Satans to the Open Source Community. Nvidia and Microsoft.

apple?

 

[the_randomizer]

And yet again, Microsoft can eat a bag of dicks, may their draconian acquisition BS tactics forever fail.

i still fail to see the reason behind all the doom & gloom calling, i have yet to find a company that microsoft singlehandedly killed


unlike EA

What about all the emulators on GitHub? Surely, they can find a way to eff it up.

 

[leonmagnus99]

damn what's next in their to buy list to ruin? Nintendo ??

 

[the_randomizer]

damn what's next in their to buy list to ruin? Nintendo ??

Not happening, they can sod off for all I care.