GitHub very close to belonging to Microsoft: a purchase that could be closed in just a few hours

GitHub may not sound familiar to many of you, although from the news that has come to light, this will no longer be the case in a very short time. And it is that Microsoft has gone shopping (again) and has taken over GitHub, a collaborative public tool that allows developers to keep the code orderly and safe in the event of any incident, with the advantage offered by the fact that supposes a commitment to the Open Source type

Normally on GitHub we are going to find open source developments, an option for which the platform is interesting given its free natureYou can also access private repositories, although to be able to use this option you must have a paid subscription.

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GitHub had been the protagonist due to the insistent rumors that spoke of a possible interest on the part of the Redmond company to take over the aforementioned platform. Some rumors that in the end seem to come true through the payment of almost 2 billion dollars by Microsoft.

Today, Monday, June 4, said purchase could be announced (there are many signs that this is the case), one of the most important carried out by Microsoft, for which reason it would have been Satya Nadella himself who reported the new news to senior executives of the company.

This is a logical measure if we take into account the good eyes with which Redmond has been looking at Open Source projects of a while to this part.Just look at the example of the closure of CodePlex and the following request to developers to move to GitHub or the flirtations of Windows with Linux. Also remember that Xamarin was bought by Microsoft in 2016.

In addition, with this purchase GitHub would gain in stability, because on the one hand, they have been without a CEO for a long time after the abandonment of co-founder Chris Wanstrath. In addition, it would be easier for them to get out of the red numbers in which they find themselves by being able to improve the monetization of their products.

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