[Python-Dev] Microsoft to acquire GitHub for $7.5 billion (original) (raw)

Guido van Rossum guido at python.org
Mon Jun 4 12:06:28 EDT 2018

On Mon, Jun 4, 2018 at 8:40 AM, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net> wrote:

On Mon, 4 Jun 2018 17:03:27 +0200 Victor Stinner <vstinner at redhat.com> wrote: > > At this point, I have no opinion about the event :-) I just guess that > it should make GitHub more sustainable since Microsoft is a big > company with money and interest in GitHub. I'm also confident that > nothing will change soon. IMHO there is no need to worry about > anything. It does spell uncertainty on the long term. While there is no need to worry for now, I think it gives a different colour to the debate about moving issues to Github.

I don't see how this increases the uncertainty. Surely if GitHub had remained independent there would have been be similar concerns about how it would make enough money to stay in business.

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