Microsoft Reportedly Acquires GitHub; Announcement Expected Later Today

Jun. 4, 2018

In a deal that could be made official as early as later today, Microsoft has reportedly acquired code repository and collaboration platform for developers, GitHub, ina deal that’s said to be worth ‘billions of dollars’. While Business Insider last weekreportedthat the two are in talks for a possible acquisition,Bloomberg now saysthat the deal is done and dusted, and would be made official soon.

Quoting an unnamed source, Bloomberg says that GitHub preferred selling the company to Microsoft in a large part because it was impressed by the latter’s Hyderabad-born CEO, Satya Nadella. The Redmond giant is said to be one of the top contributors to GitHub, and hosts even the original source code for Windows File Manager on the site. Other top contributors to the platform include the likes of Google, Facebook, Docker, Apache among other tech heavyweights.

It will interesting to see the open-source community’s reaction to the news of Microsoft’s latest acquisition, with many open-source advocates sure to express concerns over the development. However, it is worth noting that under Nadella, Microsoft has beenembracing the open-source communitylike never before.

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