Some events in the world of business and technologies have far-reaching consequences. The presentation of the first Iphone in January, 2007 has laid the foundation for an era of smartphones, having designated a decline of push-button cell phones and a MP3 players. Promoting of such social networks as Facebook and VKontakte, has marked an ICQ messenger decline.

Events of other plan aren't connected with market change, innovative inventions and technological breaks — they are connected with commercial transactions, similar to that that has been opened at the beginning of June: Microsoft buys Github. What as it will affect on a blockchain developers does purchase of the GitHub service by the Microsoft company and mean to the IT market?

What is GitHub for the world of a blockchain and cryptocurrencies?

Github — the peculiar "social network" for developers from around the world created under the motto "We Write a Code Together!" from the moment of creation in 2008 service has won recognition at developers of the free software (for example, on Github the code of the Linux operating system settles down) and large IT corporations, such as Facebook, Twitter, Yahoo and many others.

In 2011, several months later after purchase of pizza for 10 000 BTC, on Github more than one million users were registered and 2 million repositories have been created. The popularity of service grew from year to year — in 2017 on service 24 million developers who in common worked on 67 million repositories (a repository — online the "storage" containing a software code in open access) have been registered.

By itself, a blockchain developers haven't avoided Github — growth of number of users and repositories has fallen on years of formation a blockchain technology with the subsequent growth of her popularity. The number of changes in a code on Github as an indicator of regular work, became criterion of quality for a set of projects which watches world a blockchain community. By the way, according to the Cryptomiso.com service, the bitcoin is in the 17th place by quantity of kommit among all cryptocurrencies for the last 12 months.

Microsoft buys … and breaks?

On February 11, 2011 Microsoft and Nokia declare strategic cooperation, and in 2013 the mobile division of Nokia is on sale on May 09, 2011 Microsoft buys Skype for $5,4 billion. On June 04, 2018 Microsoft buys Github. It is remarkable that extreme two bargains have been concluded for the sums with a difference of $1 billion: $8,5 billion and $7,5 billion.

It is heavy to tell as far as purchase by the software giant has spoiled Nokia, Skype, Hotmail and other companies. Perhaps, purchases have been made while presidents of the companies have preferred to sell business in view of sad prospects and forecasts for the next few years. But one can be told precisely — any of acquisitions of Microsoft didn't become better over time. This fact causes scepticism and vigilance in a blockchain community.

In difference from last loud absorption, Github wasn't in a situation when changes in the market would threaten with gloomy prospects. On the contrary, service has taken place and from year to year gained steam. Really this time Bill Gates's child was made by the standing acquisition? Let us wait and see.

What's the problem?

Actually, the taken place transaction doesn't mean anything except that Microsoft has bought Github. The problem consists in the prejudiced relation of developers and representatives a blockchain community to the new owner of service. The world corporation has got Gihub to tidy up cryptocurrencies to the hands! Against Microsoft against a blockchain of developers — who will win? These are headings and subjects for yellow press.

"The main part a blockchain projects uses GitHub as the tool for distribution of the open source code. But I think that panic, about need to move to other websites already now, is strongly exaggerated. The market will sort things out, in case of any serious problems with service" — comments on the transaction of Daniel Minkov, CEO of Snowfox Technologies.

Volodymyr van der Laan, Bitcoin Core developer holds the similar opinion. He has answered a question of need of transfer of a repository of Bitcoin as follows:

"There are no reasons for haste — will manage to move always. We don't exclude that the come true transaction is the beginning of the end for GitHub — to him can happen most too, as to Codeplex".

Cyd Sidzhbrand, the CEO of Gitlab, has spoken the transaction positively:

"This acquisition confirms the high importance and importance of software developers in the modern world. Microsoft, most likely, has got GitHub that it is closer to integrate him with Microsoft Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) and other projects"

Microsoft used GitHub on direct mission more than five years — 1845 repositories. To get him, considering the current popularity and demand — the correct decision.

There is open a question of the future of the project — if the problem happens, there will be alternatives. The GitLab service is ready to accept all whom change of owners of GitHub doesn't arrange: in the first couple of days after official confirmation of the transaction there was a panic surge in migration of projects and repositories, but on June 7 everything has risen on the places.

                                             Import of projects and repositories with Github on Gitlab

Arguing more widely, it doesn't make sense to change one centralized service for another, there will be yet no project which acquisition will be impossible. In such spirit other part a blockchain of community which hasn't given in to panic has expressed. The main thing that projects haven't lost an opportunity to share an open source code.