http://tech.newstatesman.com/business/linux-foundation-microsoft-github

Microsoft’s $7.5bn (£5.6bn) acquisition of the code repository GitHub is a “good thing” for the open source community, the director of the Linux Foundation Jim Zemlin has said.

In a blogpost, Zemlin dismissed fears that Microsoft is engaged in a “sinister plot” to acquire the 70 million open source projects hosted in the repository.