GitHub - News, Features, and Slideshows

News about GitHub

GitHub launches ‘Sponsors’ feature to fund open source projects

GitHub has unveiled a new way to financially support developers that use the company’s platform to host their open source projects.
Microsoft's GitHub acquisition set for EU approval, sources say

U.S. software giant Microsoft is set to win unconditional EU antitrust approval for its US$7.5 billion purchase of privately held coding website GitHub, two people familiar with the matter have said.
GitHub looks beyond code to collaboration

GitHub — the global service, recently acquired by Microsoft, that provides Git-based online source code repositories accessible by multiple developers — is widening its focus beyond code to offer support for the whole software development lifecycle, and for collaboration around any kind of data or document.
Microsoft buys GitHub for US$7.5b - should developers be concerned?

Microsoft has acquired GitHub for US$7.5 billion in Microsoft stock. Github's 85 million code repositories and 28 million users make it the internet’s largest code repository. Microsoft will hope to accelerate its growth, attract further developers to the Microsoft range of platforms and integrate GitHub with the Azure cloud that is central to the company's strategy.
GitHub’s tool reduces open source software license violations

Called Licensed, the tool finds license dependencies early in the development life cycle

Features about GitHub

What is GitHub? More than Git version control in the cloud

GitHub is the host with the most for open source projects and programmers who want to share and collaborate on code. Here’s why

[]