News reports say that Microsoft is buying github for about $5 billion.
There's currently no reason to expect that Microsoft will change the way
it works, and some reason to expect they won't since there are more github
contributors from Microsoft than from any other organization (Facebook is
second), but for people who have problems with their projects depending
on a single large vendor, it's a single large vendor.
Bloomberg: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-06-03/microsoft-is-said-to-have-agreed-to-acquire-coding-site-github
Financial Times: https://ftalphaville.ft.com/2018/06/04/1528114816000/Wot-is-Github/
Quartz: https://qz.com/1295693/github-users-already-fuming-about-companys-sale-to-microsoft/
Regards,
John Levine, johnl@xxxxxxxxx, Taughannock Networks, Trumansburg NY
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