A lot has changed Microsoft in the last few years, since Satya Nadella took over the companyAfter the departure of the always controversial Steve Ballmer, who stated that free software, including Linux, was like a cancer, although ten years later he changed his mind to affirm that it was a rival to consider for Windows.
In recent years, Microsoft has bet a lot on Open Source and the most recent proof is found on GitHub, a platform where developers can host your entire repositories, code, documents or projects to share them with the community. At the moment, this purchase has been received with expectation by the developers.
Although the current valuation of the company was about 2.000 billion dollars, the guys from Redmond have paid 5.000 billion more, 7.500 billion dollars specifically. According to Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft, they want to accelerate the use of GitHub among enterprise developers through their direct sales channels in addition to offering access to Microsoft's infrastructure and cloud services (Azure). Any developer can upload your code to the platform completely free of charge if you want to share it with the whole community.
You can also upload it to share it with a limited number of people, making use of one of the payment plans offered by the company. GitHub is used by Apple, Google and Amazon among others, using this platform to host and develop some of their projects.
Hereinafter, Xamarin founder Nat Friedman will take over GitHub, a company that was without a CEO a year after the founder of the company left his post. Today, we can find 85 million repositories hosted thanks to the 28 million developers who actively use this platform. The unrest in the community after the announcement of this purchase has caused some of the most restless developers to choose to migrate all their projects to GitLab, the alternative to GitHub.