Microsft buys GitHub
GitHub is at the heart of FOSS development, with 27 million users and 80 million repositories, both open and private, from more than a million organizations worldwide.
What is GitHub
GitHub is a collaborative development platform to host projects using the Git version control system.
It has become the heart of modern open source software development like Ubuntu or Google and Microsoft uses it for its open source programs.
A large number of open source projects will use GitHub for development and to host their source code. Although GitHub is famous for its open source projects, it is a private company limited unlike GitLab that its programs are open source.
Microsoft intends to promote programming tools and have better and constant development of free software on GitHub. Wants to get closer to Developers the famous phrase Developers Developers
Microsoft announces that it purchased GiHub for $ 7.5 billion in Microsof.t stock. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said the merger between the two firms will strengthen Microsoft’s commitment to innovation and freedom in program development.
After the purchase, several programmers migrated mainly to GitLab
June 4, 2018 It’s Official! Microsoft Has Bought GitHub for $7.5 Billion
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