Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub
I spent eight years building software on .NET, so I have a lot of time for Microsoft, but I fully understand why a lot of people aren&#x27;t happy with this news. It&#x27;s been good to have a leader in open-source that is unaffiliated with anyone but the tech they chose to use (Ruby&#x2F;Rails). For me, it doesn&#x27;t matter who takes it over - it&#x27;s just sad to see a neutral player disappear.<p>With all that said, things have changed a lot over at GitHub over the past 2-3 years, so I can&#x27;t say I&#x27;m all that surprised that this was the outcome. Restructures, scandals, and some crazy comments over the few years has led me to believe that GitHub probably isn&#x27;t the same company that the development community embraced. For that reason, I can&#x27;t see Microsoft doing a &quot;Skype&quot; and merging GitHub into their platforms. Developers are fickle, and if Microsoft mess with GitHub then it&#x27;s not only a huge blow to the relations they&#x27;ve been trying to build for the past few years, it&#x27;s a guaranteed way to see developers flock to the next big service (i.e. GitLab).