Microsoft github acquisition official

[Carmel NY]

On Thu, 7 Jun 2018 08:12:03 +0100, Steve O'Hara-Smith stated:

>On Wed, 6 Jun 2018 18:47:13 -0600
>The Doctor <doctor at doctor.nl2k.ab.ca> wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Jun 07, 2018 at 12:21:34AM +0000, Carmel NY wrote:  
>> > I just heard that the deal was official. Microsoft acquired Github for
>> > 7.5 billion dollars.
>> > 
>> > https://www.theverge.com/2018/6/4/17422788/microsoft-github-acquisition-official-deal
>> >  
>> 
>> Definitely the case!
>> 
>> Time for an opengit.org!  
>
>	Erm Gitlab ? From the Gitlab wikipedia entry:
>
>----------------
>In June 2018, the acquisition of competitor GitHub by Microsoft[24][25]
>caused a migration of over 250,000 projects to GitLab[26].
>----------------
>
>	and June's hardly started.
>

"gitlab" isn't free though.

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Carmel