Microsoft buying Github: Biggest and remarkable acquisition of this year

There was a rumor that Microsoft is buying Github for few days but none of them officially announced it. But today morning the tech giant Microsoft officially announced that its acquiring Github for $7.5 billion. Its is the second largest acquisition after Satya Nadella become Microsoft CEO. The first one is Linkedin for $26.2 billion.

GitHub is a large code repository that has become very popular with developers and companies hosting entire projects, documentation, and code. Apple, Amazon, Google, and many other big tech companies use GitHub. There are 85 million repositories hosted on GitHub, and 28 million developers contribute to them. GitHub will now be led by CEO Nat Friedman, the founder of Xamarin, who will report to Microsoft’s Cloud and AI chief Scott Guthrie. GitHub CEO and co-founder Chris Wanstrath will now become a technical fellow at Microsoft, also reporting into Guthrie.

Now the biggest question and fear among the developer is, this acquisition will put a major set back to open source project and some people already saying that it'll be a death for Github. But Microsoft promises that it'll keep Github independent and open.

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