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Re:Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub by _betty_ on Sunday June 03, 2018 @07:04PM (#17222953)
Interestingly enough they're actively working on public vsts repositories, I thought that was devdiv trying to migrate their code back to MS land. Wonder if that's what sparked the conversations.
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Re:Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub by sdesol on Sunday June 03, 2018 @07:27PM (#17223103)
> Interestingly enough they're actively working on public vsts repositories

Is this public knowledge? They shutdown their public repos service a while back and I had a manager at Microsoft admit that getting public repo traction was insanely hard. GitHub literally has a strangle hold on the public repos space.

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Re:Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub by terandle on Monday June 04, 2018 @12:24AM (#17224621)
This is their blog post on it

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/devops/2018/04/27/vsts-publ...

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Re:Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub by sdesol on Monday June 04, 2018 @12:28AM (#17224637)
Thanks for the link. Purchasing GitHub, if true, can certainly complicate things.
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