GitHub could be acquired by Microsoft

[Joakim]

On Monday, 4 June 2018 at 03:51:15 UTC, Anton Fediushin wrote:
> This is still just a rumour, we'll know the truth on Monday 
> (which is today).
>
> Some articles about the topic:
>
> https://fossbytes.com/microsoft-github-aquisition-report/
> https://www.theverge.com/2018/6/3/17422752/microsoft-github-acquisition-rumors
>
> What's your opinion about that? Will you continue using GitHub?
>
> Both GitLab and Bitbucket can be used instead to host your D 
> projects - dub registry supported them for a while now.
>
> IMHO Microsoft isn't the type of company I want to see behind 
> the GitHub. Maybe I am wrong since Microsoft has both money and 
> programmers to improve it further, I just don't trust them too 
> much which is the right thing to do when dealing with 
> companies. This means that I will move my repositories 
> elsewhere and use GitHub just to contribute to other projects.

Looks like a done deal, will be announced tomorrow:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-06-03/microsoft-is-said-to-have-agreed-to-acquire-coding-site-github

It all depends on how much support they pour into github, but I 
agree it's not a good sign.