Microsoft purchases Github for $7.5 billion/technologies/businessofengineering/b/blog/posts/microsoft-purchases-github-for-7-5-billionThe company&#39;s open source project development will be beneficial to both Microsoft and Github (image via Github) Microsoft is buying GitHub for a price valued at $7.5 billion, as announced on Monday. The software-coding sharing platform was ...en-USTelligent Community 12RE: Microsoft purchases Github for $7.5 billionhttps://community.element14.com/technologies/businessofengineering/b/blog/posts/microsoft-purchases-github-for-7-5-billionTue, 05 Jun 2018 19:44:59 GMT93d5dcb4-84c2-446f-b2cb-99731719e767:b4b2ceb6-ad81-420f-a0c9-b8afb93b102514rhb1<p>A good article <span>[mention:b85bafb1d1a14cd0b49feeaee407e32d:e9ed411860ed4f2ba0265705b8793d05]</span> which I missed reading about elsewhere this evening, so thank you for drawing my attention to it.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I wonder why MS want to own it?</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Rod</p><img src="https://community.element14.com/aggbug?PostID=4925&AppID=96&AppType=Weblog&ContentType=0" width="1" height="1">