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GitHub faces a fight for its survival at Microsoft
When Microsoft announced it was acquiring GitHub in a $7.5 billion deal in 2018, developers were nervous. Some were concerned about Microsoft controlling GitHub, and others were taking a wait-and-see approach. Nearly eight years later, GitHub is now fighting for its survival, amid a surge of outages, security issues, and pressure from competitors. In the […] When Microsoft announced it was acquiring GitHub in a $7.5 billion deal in 2018, developers were nervous . Some were concerned about Microsoft controlling GitHub, and others were taking a wait-and-see approach. Nearly eight years later, GitHub is now fighting for its survival, amid a surge of outages, security issues, and pressure from competitors. In the last few weeks alone, GitHub had multiple major outages , a remote code execution vulnerability disclosure , and its internal code repositories hacked due to a "poisoned" VS C
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According to The Verge’s source item, GitHub faces a fight for its survival at Microsoft, When Microsoft announced it was acquiring GitHub in a $7.5 billion deal in 2018, developers were nervous. Some were concerned about Microsoft controlling GitHub, and others were taking a wait-and-see approach. Nearly eight years later, GitHub is now fighting for its survival, amid a surge of outages, security issues, and pressure from competitors. In the […] When Microsoft announced it was acquiring GitHub in a $7.5 billion deal in 2018, developers were nervous . Some were concerned about Microsoft controlling GitHub, and others were taking a wait-and-see approach. Nearly eight years later, GitHub is now fighting for its survival, amid a surge of outages, security issues, and pressure from competitors. In the last few weeks alone, GitHub had multiple major outages , a remote code execution vulnerability disclosure , and its internal code repositories hacked due to a “poisoned” VS C
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