Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub ➹

Around two years ago, a high-ranking exec turned to me at a dinner party and asked me what the heck I was doing at Microsoft with my OpenSource background and (I quote) “actual tech experience”.

I’m prone to wondering that myself sometimes, but stuff like this gives me heart.

On the other hand, it feels totally unreal. It’s as if a million repositories suddenly cried out…

Ah well. Let’s see how things pan out.

Update: Official blog post, presentation. $7.5B–not bad at all…

HackerNews, of course, has gone ballistic at least twice.