Microsoft Buying Github?  ⚐

Some open-source backers who’ve continued to question Microsoft’s open-source change-of-heart will no doubt look askance at the idea of former open-source enemy Microsoft becoming the steward of GitHub. However, the same was true of Microsoft’s purchase of Mojang, the makers of Minecraft. Since Microsoft bought Mojang in 2014, Redmond is largely seen as continuing to do right by Minecraft and the Minecraft community.

If I’d come across this news a year ago, it probably would have scared me considerably.

Today, I’m not sure there’s a better steward for GitHub than Microsoft. The work they’re doing with Azure, Kubernetes, and even in the Linux world, is pretty outstanding.