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.
