The community of developers was jolted hard after the announcement of Microsoft acquiring GitHub for $7.5 billion in stock. The developers were infuriated due to laying back of community-driven platform vital for open source software development.
GitHub is synonymous to air for living beings and companies and developers rely on it as a code repository. After the announcement was made, Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft revealed that GitHub currently hosts 85 million code repositories and 28 million developers. Big enterprises like Amazon, Google and Apple operate on GitHub, while the Microsoft remains on top of the active organization on the website.
During the Nadella period, Microsoft has been actively participating in open source projects and developers.
Nadella wrote, “Microsoft is all-in on open source. We have been on a journey with open source, and today we are active in the open source ecosystem, we contribute to open source projects, and some of our most vibrant developer tools and frameworks are open source. When it comes to our commitment to open source, judge us by the actions we have taken in the recent past, our actions today, and in the future.”
He continued by saying that “We know the responsibility we take on with this agreement. We are determined to being the stewards of GitHub community, which will retain its developer first ethos, operate independently and remain an open platform. We will always listen to developer feedback and invest in both fundamentals and new capabilities”.
The open source community will ensure to prove every word of Nadella to fulfill. Along with GitHub, some of the other competitors include Atlassian’s Bitbucket and GitLab. Microsoft acquired Nat Friedman, the founder of Xamarin tool in 2016 will be the next CEO of GitHub. While the present CEO of GitHub, Chris Wanstrath will become the Microsoft technical fellow.
