Microsoft Buys GitHub: The Linux Foundation’s Reaction

If Microsoft is such a great open source citizen this day, why are they charging billions in patent licensing fees to people building things on Android?

It seems like one of the benefits of being really big is that you can act like the evil stuff is only 5% of your business, even if it’s the evil stuff that made you big in the first place.

You don't have to be 100% open source to be a good open source citizen. That's just nonsensical.

If you click on the members page you'll learn that Github is a gold member and microsoft is a platinum member of the linux foundation.

https://www.linuxfoundation.org/membership/members/

Actually Github is Silver, along with LinkedIn...

And Google is only Silver.

> Actually Github is Silver

My bad, I scrolled too fast.

I really hope Microsoft makes Github even more useful to developers and not screw it up. Fingers crossed.

Think we all hope that :D