Microsoft buys GitHub. Cryptocurrency developers are fleeing the platform
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Today confirmed long-standing rumors: Microsoft buys GutHub, a well-known platform for storing repositories and experience of coders, where I found shelter for 28 million individual developers. Including cryptocurrency. Transaction amount — 7.5 billion, but the cryptocurrency world such a transaction is akin to a knife in the back.
"Together both companies will guide developers and help them to achieve more at every stage of the development lifecycle, to attract enterprises to use GitHub to contribute tools for developers Microsoft's new audience," said in a press release.
"Microsoft is, first and foremost, the developers and joining forces with GitHub, we reinforce our commitment to freedom, openness and innovation," said Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft. "We recognize a responsibility to the community that take on this agreement and will make every effort to enable every developer to create, innovate and solve the challenges of the world."
In accordance with the terms of the agreement, Microsoft takes on GitHub for 7.5 billion dollars of Microsoft stock. Until the end of the calendar year the transaction will be issued.
GitHub is definitely the most popular platform of this kind, however, not the only one. To live under the wing of Microsoft, which, of course, one of the most compliance-transparent companies in the world, the developers of the cryptocurrencies are unlikely to want. In particular, the intention to leave the platform already stated the developers of Monero (XMR). They offer moving to a Gitea or Networks. Not least of concern is how Microsoft refers to their purchases after purchase (think Nokia or Skype, something you remember about them?). This is one of those companies that's in the new chicken coop fit with their rules. The purchase of such level are carried out more often for patents, not good intentions.
Perhaps it's time to get decentralized repository?
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