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Comment by CodeSheikh | Hacker News Reader

Don't you guys think that GitHub was meant to give heads up about acquisition to its subscribers, at least to premium users? Yes this would give away the whole "secret" but if acquirer is some evil corp? Or a foreign entity? I feel like there is an important law missing regarding acquisition of companies who run premium plans.

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The only thing that matters here is that they aren't actually owned by MS yet. They have just agreed to be bought soon. So, there's still a substantial time for customers to leave or adapt or whatever before the acquisition is completed.

It's true that it would be worse if one day you suddenly were already a customer of a different company without warning. That's not the case here though.

Side-note: I'm very critical of MS as a acompany and have been critical of GitHub separately, nothing above should be seen as defending them other than on acknowledging the fact that they've announced the acquisition long before it actaully will be completed.

That's what this announcement was. It can take months to a year before the deal closes.

Source: Am LinkedIn Employee. Thats how long it took from public announcement through SEC approval.

Or even just "there are certain companies I don't trust enough to let them see what's in my private repos".

Well GitLab is hosted on Azure, so you're out of luck there if you're that paranoid.

I feel like this would be a great way to get investigated for insider trading.

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