Microsoft just announced in a blog post that GitHub will be acquired for $7.5 billion in
Microsoft stock, and the purchase is expected to close by the end of 2018.
Git Hub is one of the most popular sites for hosting
repositories of code. Google moved most of its projects to GitHub after Google Code
shut down, and countless open-source Android applications and libraries live on
the site as well.
GitHub has been an independent
company for its entire 10-years of operation, but things have changed now and
developers are not happy. Some developers are accusing Microsoft of stealing
codes.
Developers have started looking
for alternative options for hosting their projects. GitLab, an open-source
alternative to Git Hub is reporting 10x the normal daily amount of created
repositories.
We're seeing 10x the normal daily amount of repositories #movingtogitlab dropbox.com/s/uzg9vc5oljr8… We're scaling our fleet to try to stay up. Follow the progress on monitor.gitlab.net/dashboard/db/g… and @movingtogitlab
Microsoft said in a blog post
that Developers are the builders of this new era, writing the world’s code. And
GitHub is their home.
“We will empower developers at every stage of the
development lifecycle – from ideation to collaboration to deployment to the
cloud. Going forward, GitHub will remain an open platform, which any developer
can plug into and extend
