Microsoft and GitHub have held acquisition talks

Re:Microsoft and GitHub have held acquisition talks by tootie on Friday June 01, 2018 @03:20PM (#17209007)

People are being overly pessimistic. This would be a potentially great deal. GitHub is very successful at what they do and I don't think MS would change that. More likely they would use GH as lead-in to selling cloud services the same way Google uses GitLab.

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Re:Microsoft and GitHub have held acquisition talks by chasote on Friday June 01, 2018 @03:45PM (#17209340)

Some of my pessimism is not just with Microsoft, itself, even though I do have that. I think an argument can be made that we should not want all the decent software companies to be bought up by the same big five giant companies, no matter who it is.

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Re:Microsoft and GitHub have held acquisition talks by parvenu74 on Friday June 01, 2018 @03:36PM (#17209237)

If you've watched the last couple Build Conferences (Microsoft's annual developer conference) they frequently demonstrate their CI/CD pipeline based on Github checkins, not VSTS checkins (just takes a webhook invocation and all the source-hosting sites support sending those out on check-in or merge).

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Re:Microsoft and GitHub have held acquisition talks by falcon620 on Friday June 01, 2018 @03:53PM (#17209442)

A zillion companies use Github. This does not qualify them to operate Github.

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Re:Microsoft and GitHub have held acquisition talks by parvenu74 on Friday June 01, 2018 @04:07PM (#17209612)

Hasn't GitHub been running on Microsoft Azure for a few years now?

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Re:Microsoft and GitHub have held acquisition talks by colemickens on Friday June 01, 2018 @09:37PM (#17212110)

What does GitHub's choice of cloud have to do with Microsoft's aptitude to take over an existing, huge, critical piece of the open source world? From a business perspective, or an operational one?

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