Microsoft to acquire GitHub for $7.5 billion

https://news.microsoft.com/2018/06/04/m … 5-billion/
REDMOND, Wash. — June 4, 2018 — Microsoft Corp. on Monday announced it has reached an agreement to acquire GitHub, the world’s leading software development platform where more than 28 million developers learn, share and collaborate to create the future.

I see that calmly. Microsoft isn’t the evil open-source killer anymore. When it get worse, there are alternatives and nobody needs to get into PANIC mode and switch to gitlab.

No panic but this is the explanation of the codeplex closing.
I wander why microsoft acquired github.

I wander why microsoft acquired github.
Because open source is their PITA..
And the first thing they will do they will change the standard terms and conditions, such they will be able to utilize the sources (or the know-how related) without a limitation.
PS: any git**** (or **duino ) will soon or later be subject to a beefy sell. That is why the founders of such open/free projects do that – they hope to sell the project to an XYZ whenever possible..

hmm, not sure if ‘free’ hosting would continue, or that it’d go the way of google code
more likely we’d see more integration with microsoft products, e.g. the visual studio series
or even for that matter integration into microsoft ‘cloud’

Bitbucket, Sourceforge, gitlab still exist! Too early to worry about! It seems that github had a money problems, maybe Microsoft saved it.

i know microsoft’s track record in the past, but wondering why everybody is still so wary when microsoft actually does open source good. .net core, visual studio code, typescript, …
You can be suspicious how long they keep it up, but honestly, the things above are fully open source, so if microsoft changes direction somewhere, branch it off and continue with the community, as with any other open source project.
They’re also adding very good integration with git (& probably soon github) to visual studio & vs code, imo this has the chance of being pretty good , and if it isn’t, so what indeed, there are plenty of competitors to migrate to.

[Pito – Tue Jun 05, 2018 8:58 am] –
I wander why microsoft acquired github.
Because open source is their PITA..
And the first thing they will do they will change the standard terms and conditions, such they will be able to utilize the sources (or the know-how related) without a limitation.
PS: any git**** (or **duino ) will soon or later be subject to a beefy sell. That is why the founders of such open/free projects do that – they hope to sell the project to an XYZ whenever possible..

Is there any indication for that? atm they’re releasing everything under the MIT license, which i thought is pretty well respected, and i don’t hear anything about them trying to change that.
I go to M$ conferences from time to time, and the message is always, we’re taking this seriously because we have to, it’s the future.

It seems that github had a money problems, maybe Microsoft saved it.
In case of GITHUB’S money problems M$ will not pay $7.5billion. That is a lot of money even in this sector. They would have got it much cheaper, like $50mil. Moreover M$ does not acquire “the content” officially (no “large w-wide active customer’s base”, no “large amounts of patents”, no “large sw licenses biz”, no “huge production backlog”, no “hi-tech production sites”). M$ has paid for something else. Time will tell..

[Pito – Tue Jun 05, 2018 8:09 pm] –
It seems that github had a money problems, maybe Microsoft saved it.
In case of GITHUB’S money problems M$ will not pay $7.5billion. That is a lot of money even in this sector. They would have got it much cheaper, like $50mil. Moreover M$ does not acquire “the content” officially (no “large w-wide active customer’s base”, no “large amounts of patents”, no “large sw licenses biz”, no “huge production backlog”, no “hi-tech production sites”). M$ has paid for something else. Time will tell..

how will time tell? if they change anything for the worse, people will move away… i understand some of the microsoft opposition, but this FUD is just ridiculous. Companies like that can also do good stuff you know. Probably just because it’s in their own interest (like staying relevant etc…). Not everything is a diabolical masterplan to obtain your code.

I will probably just delete a lot of my non critical repos and then decide what to do with the more widely used ones in the new month.

Looks like loads of people are moving to GitLab as it’s s easy process, but GitLab does not have a good history either.

I will probably move some repos to bitbucket, I use it for work and it’s OK, but lacks a lot of the features that GitHub has.

I guess GitHub we’re giving away too much hosting for free and it was not sustainable, and like a lot of these companies, their sole aim is got get big enough to be bought by a competitor or to list on the stock market, so the investors can dump all their shares and make a big profit.

I don’t think you need to rush into the move. It took Microsoft years to screw up skype.

[asmallri – Tue Jun 05, 2018 11:34 pm] –
I don’t think you need to rush into the move. It took Microsoft years to screw up skype.

Come on -_-… are you serious?
Microsoft literally makes the best development tools, why would the screw up github?
Yeah, things like skype obviously aren’t what they’re best at, but development tools are. Imo github has more chance of improving than getting worse now i’s in microsofts hands.

Is there any statistics available what development tools are mostly used on the GitHub by those 28mil developers representing 1.5mil “companies”?
This is what I’ve found ( https://octoverse.github.com/2016/ ):

Github Languages 2016.JPG (47.55 KiB) Viewed 397 times

[Pito – Fri Jun 08, 2018 1:59 pm] –
Is there any statistics available what development tools are mostly used on the GitHub by those 28mil developers representing 1.5mil “companies”?
This is what I’ve found ( https://octoverse.github.com/2016/ ):
Github Languages 2016.JPG
And 2017 from the same site:
Github Languages 2017.JPG
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It seems the ratio is aproximately
5.5mil Java/Python/Ruby/PHP —- against —– 1.6mil C/C++/C#/CSS/Go (while C++ and C# are probably most M$ positive ones)..

Well, since they do a lot around webdevelopment, javascript is ofcourse also something big for microsoft .
And how does which languages it’s used for really matter for a source control system?

didn’t realise that javascript is that popular i’d guess it is due to works on the web, it is well known that java & python (and even ruby) is popular but javascript seemed to dwarf them all

I just noticed that in Sourceforge appeared this message in a box
Migrate from GitHub to SourceForge with this tool. Check out all of SourceForge’s recent improvements.