Microsoft mulled buying Github in 2014
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Monday, 10 June 2019 12:22

Microsoft mulled buying Github in 2014


Thought that it was too satanic to pull it off

Software King of the World Microsoft considered buying GitHub in 2014 but felt it was a little too satanic at the time to pull the deal off.

Github unaffected by US export control orders
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Code collaboration is safe

Fears that China might lose access to the Git-hub depository are ill-founded.

Microsoft's $7.5 billion GitHub deal will get EU approval
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Unconditional nod

Software King of the Wolrd Microsoft will get unconditional EU antitrust approval for its $7.5 billion purchase of privately held coding website GitHub.

Microsoft confirms it has bought GitHub
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Tuesday, 05 June 2018 10:19

Microsoft confirms it has bought GitHub


For 7.5 billion

As rumoured, Microsoft has confirmed that it has acquired code repository website GitHub for $7.5 in Volish stock.

Github hit by biggest recorded DDoS attack
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Managed to survive, sort of

Github was hit by the most powerful denial of service attack on record but managed to walk away from it.

Half of GitHub is duplicated code
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Friday, 24 November 2017 11:47

Half of GitHub is duplicated code


Researchers shocked

More than 70 percent of code stored in GitHub is duplicated, a study has found.

Open Source Github under Chinese attack
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Monday, 30 March 2015 10:34

Open Source Github under Chinese attack


Sauce fight

Open source coding site GitHub said it was fending off a days-long DoS attack that had caused intermittent outages for the social coding site.