The acquisition by Microsoft of the open source GitHub repository has provoked protests from many in the crypto ecosystem, such as the Bitcoin Core developers, many other Blockchain companies and even small entrepreneurs who have expressed their concern with what happened, and They are deciding to migrate to one of their competitors as soon as possible as GitLab.
The purchase was made on June 4, 2018, after several statements by the computer giant of its desire to acquire GitHub, the transaction value of US $ 7,500 million has been made official. second largest acquisition after they acquired LinkedIn in 2016 for about US $ 26.2 billion.
The most impressive and suspicious of this transaction is that it was not made in current money or in any type of cryptocurrency, but has been paid with Microsoft shares to the owners of GitHub, which has caused even more discontent within the crypto.
GitHub is also a world giant of "repositories of codes", which has become very popular among developers and companies that host all their projects documentation and version codes.
Major companies such as Apple, Amazon and Google use this public service. There are some 85 million repositories hosted on GitHub and more than 28 million registered developers.
From the date of purchase the new CEO of the company will be Nat Friedman Vice President of Microsoft and the former CEO of GitHub and co-founder Chris Wanstrath, will now be a technician at Microsoft, both under the direction of Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella.