Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub

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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