Submission + - Microsoft May Acquire Github Imminently
The Welcome Rain writes: ZDNet reports that Microsoft may be acquiring Github soon:
Microsoft officials have been talking to GitHub about possibly acquiring the company, according to a June 1 report in Business Insider.
BI claims that the two have discussed the possibility of an acquisition on an on-and-off-again basis over the years "but in the last few weeks talks have grown more serious." BI is citing unnamed "people close to the companies" as its sources.
This isn't as surprising as it would have been ten or more years ago. Microsoft is investing a lot in git, including gvfs, a git virtual filesystem to help git work with very large codebases. What might this mean for the future of Github?
