It does appear to be true. It's even mentioned on their wikipedia page now.
It was either an acquisition like this or go public soon, I would imagine. Like it or not, Microsoft is all in on open sourcing their own products (see .net core, powershell core, etc) and extensively using and contributing to open source projects and implementing them into their services (i.e. Azure). They no longer view closed source software licenses as their primary / future source of revenue (except for their Office suite), so this behavior does not conflict with their business interests. Microsoft internally abandoned their own proprietary source control products in favor of Git years ago and encourages their customers to do the same. I have heard them say this myself. This is not intended as a defense of Microsoft in any way, just a factual explanation of their current position as a company on open source. Whether you find these changes to be positive or threatening in nature, I leave up to you.... - Dan On Sun, Jun 3, 2018 at 7:44 PM, Ronald Bynoe <[email protected]> wrote: > I've always been partial to Gitlab, at least they let you run an > on-premises installation and are more open-source friendly. > > On Sun, Jun 3, 2018 at 7:34 PM, Michael Rasmussen <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > On 2018-06-03 18:00, Michael Barnes wrote: > > > >> I saw mention on another list that Microsoft is taking over github. Can > >> this possibly be true? > >> > > > > Bloomberg thinks so. > > https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-06-03/microsoft > > -is-said-to-have-agreed-to-acquire-coding-site-github > > > > -- > > Michael Rasmussen, Portland Oregon > > Be Appropriate && Follow Your Curiosity > > > > _______________________________________________ > > PLUG mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > > > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
