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Microsoft Closes Its $7.5 Billion Purchase of GitHub (techcrunch.com)
Microsoft has official closed its acquisition of GitHub, the Git-based code sharing and collaboration service with 31 million developers. "The Redmond, WA-based software behemoth first said it would acquire GitHub for $7.5 billion in stock in June of this year, and after the acquisition closed it would continue to run it as an independent platform and business," reports TechCrunch. From the report: The acquisition is yet another sign of how Microsoft has been doubling down on courting developers and presenting itself as a neutral partner to help them with their projects. That is because, despite its own very profitable proprietary software business, Microsoft also has a number of other businesses -- for example, Azure, which competes with AWS and Google Cloud -- that rely heavily on it being unbiased towards one platform or another. And GitHub, Microsoft hopes, will be another signal to the community of that position. In that regard, it will be an interesting credibility test for the companies. Nat Friedman, previously the CEO of Xamarin, will be the CEO of GitHub on Monday. He says the site will be run as an independent platform and business.
"We will always support developers in their choice of any language, license, tool, platform, or cloud," he writes, noting that there will be more tools to come. "We will continue to build tasteful, snappy, polished tools that developers love," he added.
"We will always support developers in their choice of any language, license, tool, platform, or cloud," he writes, noting that there will be more tools to come. "We will continue to build tasteful, snappy, polished tools that developers love," he added.
Sorry Microsoft. You pissed all over the PC industry, acted malicious, subverted standards, wrote the least secure major OS on the market, tried to make the web be "Microsoft-Only", and have generally been a bad actor for decades. You set personal computing back a decade and half if not more.
Guess what? Git is DECENTRALIZED. That means you don't get to have lock-in just because you bought github.
Bye bye!
Gitlab saw its all time high on project movement count the day Microsoft bought Github.
I don't think so.
Even if this investment never reaches black, M$ will view it as a win.
This is about vertical integration, pure and simple.
Control not only the productions systems (read Azure), but also the development systems (read GitHub). CI/CD is starting to become a must-have feature among GitHub, GitLab, and others, which only further reinforces reliance on a particular system/structure
Build those walls, ensure you support the entire workflow process from start to finish, then close the gates.