54: Microsoft acquires GitHub

Sunny Commutes Podcast

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Microsoft recently acquired GitHub, an open source software platform, for $7.5 billion. With lots of developers "freaking out", I wanted to share my opinion on why I don't think this acquisition is necessarily a bad thing.

Video version: https://youtu.be/ggTDiWNvoss

Episode Links:
News article from The Verge: https://www.theverge.com/2018/6/4/17422788/microsoft-github-acquisition-official-deal
Charged article by Owen: https://char.gd/blog/2018/why-microsoft-acquiring-github-is-a-good-thing

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