Financial Times
The $7.5bn price tag is significantly higher than lossmaking GitHub’s valuation after its previous fundraising round in 2015, when it was valued at around $2bn.
FT.COM
Microsoft plans to buy the code-sharing platform GitHub for $7.5bn
分析：Microsoft’s $7.5 billion purchase of GitHub will provoke a developer backlash https://trib.al/ZNTHwko
...Why this matters: Microsoft says it’s been the most active organization on GitHub, and that it wants it to operate independently. But why, then, is it paying so much for the business, which was last valued at $2.5 billion in 2015?
The most plausible answer is that the company will significantly influence the way the platform operates to its advantage, and get an invaluable overview of the projects being worked on across it. That will propbably spook big software companies like Google and Facebook, which won’t like the idea of developing their code on a platform controlled by a rival. Some coders are already expressing misgivingsabout the deal as well. Unless Microsoft treads carefully, some could flee to rival repositories like BitBucket or GitLab, which has seen a big spike in traffic since news of the deal broke.
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