Backlash Rose Among The Developers After Microsoft Declares To Acquire GitHub

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The open-source software provides free hosting options for different projects for which it gets admired as the leading service for open-source and collaborative development.As Microsoft intimidates open source, the developers fear, the software giant would bring some changes to GitHub for undermining the projects.Certain developers suggest their concern regarding the tech giant’s motives, behaviors along with the future plans with the acquiring the software.Microsoft also accepts the contributions from outside and uses the issue tracking feature of GitHub and records the bugs publicly.Currently, Microsoft understands as well as embraces the open-source technology considering source code publishing with firm technical sense and collaborative development with community-driven standards in a broad way.

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