Microsoft acquires GitHub

Here's thepress release announcing Microsoft's agreement to acquire GitHub for amere $7.5 billion. "GitHub will retain its developer-firstethos and will operate independently to provide an open platform for alldevelopers in all industries. Developers will continue to be able to usethe programming languages, tools and operating systems of their choice fortheir projects - and will still be able to deploy their code to anyoperating system, any cloud and any device."