Microsoft’s GitHub takeover sends shockwaves through the open-source developer ecosystem

The open-source developer community now confronts an acquisition of seismic impact. Today, Microsoft Corp. announced an agreement to acquire San Francisco-based open-source development community GitHub Inc. for $7.5 billion. Just as Oracle Corp.’s 2009 acquisition of the Sun Microsystems Inc.-developed Java sent shockwaves through the web developer ecosystem, Microsoft’s pending GitHub takeover is causing waves of concern to ripple across the global open-source developer community.
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