GitHub faces a fight for its survival at Microsoft

When Microsoft announced it was acquiring GitHub successful a $7.5 cardinal woody successful 2018, developers were nervous. Some were acrophobic astir Microsoft controlling GitHub, and others were taking a wait-and-see approach. Nearly 8 years later, GitHub is present warring for its survival, amid a surge of outages, information issues, and unit from competitors.

In the past fewer weeks alone, GitHub had aggregate major outages, a distant codification execution vulnerability disclosure, and its interior codification repositories hacked owed to a "poisoned" VS Code hold connected an employee's device. I've spoken to existent and erstwhile GitHub employees who each overgarment a representation of a …

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