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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[lexarvn]

What alternatives are there to GitHub? Beyond GitLab?

Other than gitlab, bitbucket and coding.net are the only other two free public git repo hosting that I know of. Of course there is always the option to self-host as well.

 

[Bladexdsl]

welp kiss github GOODBYE

 

[Deleted User]

noooooooooooooooooo...
ooooooooo....oooooooo....
crap how do I completely delete all my info from their servers?

 

[ertaboy356b]

I'll give the benefit of the doubt. They did give us free Xamarin after all.

 

[Yepi69]

I don't understand you people.
Microsoft bought Minecraft and expanded it. Windows 10 allows you to run UNIX codes straight from its own cmd prompt including running GUI versions of UNIX apps and distros.
They bought GitHub for a good reason, they have been going more open source lately.

 

[leonmagnus99]

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

iirc. they made an approach to sega too..
that's why it was worrying me, imagining the rpgs such VC/Yakuza only on Microsoft platforms frightened me.

 

[the_randomizer]

iirc. they made an approach to sega too..
that's why it was worrying me, imagining the rpgs such VC/Yakuza only on Microsoft platforms frightened me.

I hope they go under.

 

[linuxares]

Back to Sourceforge everyone? They're pretty good again now days after being bought up

 

[lexarvn]

I don't understand you people.
Microsoft bought Minecraft and expanded it. Windows 10 allows you to run UNIX codes straight from its own cmd prompt including running GUI versions of UNIX apps and distros.
They bought GitHub for a good reason, they have been going more open source lately.

Very good points. My guess is most people are probably just either hating over privacy concerns around Microsoft in general, or are just joking around (like I am) because Microsoft has traditionally been fun to joke about the dumb stuff they've done. I'm sure Github will be fine and continue on the road map they already have for the most part. The only worry I could possibly see is Microsoft trying to regulate Github more, but I seriously doubt they will

 

[TheDarkGreninja]

How should I feel about this?

 

[Arras]

The only immediate result I could see happening here is native Visual Studio github integration.

 

[leon315]

Rest in peace github

u shall glad that it wasn't purchased by EA!

 

[WhoAmI?]

Looks like I'm moving away from Github then. Microsoft can go f**k themselves.

 

[Deleted User]

What alternatives are there to GitHub? Beyond GitLab?

GitGud.

No, seriously, there's one called GitGud.

 

[Plstic]

notabug is also an option to switch to.

 

[VinsCool]

People are acting like it's going to be the end of the world, while realistically, I highly doubt it would change much compared to what it already is.

Can we at least wait until changes actually happen, if any, before going into a full blown tinfoil hat paranoid mode?

 

[bodefuceta]

noooooooooooooooooo...
ooooooooo....oooooooo....
crap how do I completely delete all my info from their servers?

It's big tech, man. They never delete anything, your data has it's uses even against you.

 

[Deleted User]

It's big tech, man. They never delete anything, your data has it's uses even against you.

its github, not microsoft, im pretty sure there should be some button

 

[bendevnull]

And if they mess it up, there is always sourceforge Bitbucket.

GitLab's better. They offer unlimited private repos to all users.

 

[Deleted User]

That cat/squid.... thing.. reminds me of Tentacollino......