GitHub could be acquired by Microsoft

[Anton Fediushin]

On Monday, 4 June 2018 at 18:17:24 UTC, Joakim wrote:
> On Monday, 4 June 2018 at 09:47:58 UTC, Anton Fediushin wrote:
>> Oh look, rumours are confirmed:
>>
>> https://itsfoss.com/microsoft-github/
>> MS bought GitHub for $5 billion.
>
> It's official, Nat Friedman, formerly of Xamarin, is the new 
> CEO:
>
> https://blog.github.com/2018-06-04-github-microsoft/

Also, there's an article from Satya Nadella, current CEO of 
Microsoft: 
https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2018/06/04/microsoft-github-empowering-developers/

> MS is basically selling a story to Wall Street, "Everything new 
> we tried since Windows and Office has failed abysmally, so 
> we've learned our lesson and will be the business software 
> company from now on," hence buying LinkedIn, pushing Azure, and 
> now buying Github. I don't expect this new management direction 
> to go any better.

Of course MS does, since they spent $5 billion on it. They will 
try their best to make profit out of it, just like they did with 
LinkedIn.