Why you would sell your company to Microsoft too!

1. Your company is so succesful， the valuation is so high， only a handful of companies could buy it.

2. Running a company takes a shit load of energy， and most normal people hope to relax at one point in their life.

3. People at the head of major international companies are not normal humans. They like do over work and they have one goal. Be number 1.

So good successful people sell to evil and more succesful people.

And when i say evil， i really just mean that being number 1 is more important than ethics.

Edit: spelling.

Bingo. People aclike they're a holy open source God, but the moment they have $7.5B waved in front of their face, they'd bail too.

Literally @Linuxxx is the ONLY person on this app I think would say no to that much money. Because he's a true open source warrior lol

@Stuxnet Not sure if the only one but I'd say no, indeed!

Gitbub was mainly business also before, it wasn't a Non-Profit Organization and it won't be, please stop it

@linuxxx 100% believe you're the only one.

$7.5 billion is a lot of money. A fucking lot. It takes a strong and passionate individual to say no to that.

Lots of passionate open source people here, but just don't think they have it in them. I know I sure as hell would bail lol

@Stuxnet
Do u know github (git server, I don't know what exactly u call the soft running in thier servers) is not open source!
The company promoted open source by providing cloud platform to share, maintain code base!
That's it.
They were doing business and continue to do so by the acquirer!

@Nawap I'm aware of that.

People are also acting like this is an attempt by Microsoft to end open source software. Not too many people, but there are some extremes out there.

The number one priority for any company is to make as much money as possible for its share holders.

The majority shareholder, or a group of shareholder who together hold the majority can compel the CEO to sell up, so companies aren’t always acquired by choice, though I’m not suggesting anything like his happened with GitHub.

If I owned a company and someone like Microsoft offered me $7.5 billion I honestly think I’d take the money and run.

Of course, if it was a company/product I really believed in and was passionate about that was doing something good for the world, something that cures world hunger or something, then I like to think I would be very selective about who I sold too.